Lord Mandelson arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office

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Peter Mandelson began working for Labour in the Eighties and had been a serious determine in the social gathering for many years.

He performed a key position in the New Labour motion and Sir Tony Blair’s landslide election victory in 1997.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer appointed him because the UK’s ambassador to Washington in December 2024.

It had been identified previous to that appointment that he had a friendship with convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The peer was sacked from the position final September after Downing Street mentioned new details about the depth of this relationship had emerged.

He stepped down from the House of Lords after the discharge of Epstein-related paperwork in the US raised new questions on his coping with Epstein.