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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/clear-mandelson-clique-out-labour-mps-demand

 The then UK Ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson arriving at the Cabinet Office in central London, June 18, 2025

ANGRY MPs demanded the clique controlling the Labour Party be cleared out today as further details of disgraced Peter Mandelson’s appointment as ambassador to Washington were made public.

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Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said that he found “the faux outrage over Mandelson really astonishing” since he had been closely involved in the Labour leadership since the days of Tony Blair.

Sir Keir “must have known of his character, must have known what he was like,” Mr Corbyn added.

Norwich Labour MP Clive Lewis said the appointment reflected “a wider rotten political culture, a 30-year project where proximity to wealth and power isn’t a means to an end, it is the end goal. That’s what Peter Mandelson represented.

“This isn’t just about one bad set of decisions, it’s about a political culture that he represents [which] is destroying mainstream party politics in this country,” he added.

Steve Witherden, Labour MP for Montgomery, pointed out that “Mandelson’s avarice and malign influence in the Labour Party was why he was made ambassador and why he was useful to Epstein.”

Green Party leader Zack Polanski said that the “files confirm that Mandelson’s malign influence runs through this Labour government. Starmer knew exactly the choice he was making when he appointed him. He has to go.”

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The documents released reveal that No 10 national security adviser Jonathan Powell raised concerns about Mr Mandelson’s reputation directly with Mr McSweeney, who blandly said “the issues had been addressed.”

Those issues included Mandelson staying at Mr Epstein’s New York House after the latter’s conviction. Another reputational risk was Mr Mandelson’s promotion of Reform leader Nigel Farage as a possible go-between with the Trump administration.

Mr Powell found the appointment to be “unusual” and “weirdly rushed,” while the top official at the Foreign Office at the time also had reservations. … Keir [Starmer] ignored them all.

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/clear-mandelson-clique-out-labour-mps-demand

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