3 h. ago Mandelson told Epstein ‘your friends love you’ after 2008 charges as Starmer faces growing backlash: UK politics live

Prime minister defies pressure to sack US ambassador over links with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein

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3 h. ago Candidates bid for nominations as Labour deputy leadership deadline approaches

So far, only Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has secured backing from enough MPs to make it past the first round.

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4 h. ago Jeffrey Epstein's 'best pal' Lord Mandelson says he might have been murdered in jail

Peter Mandelson, whose left red-faced after the extent of his friendship to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, thinks that his former friend could have been murdered in jail

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4 h. ago Mandelson told Epstein ‘your friends love you’ after charges as Starmer faces growing backlash: UK politics live

Prime minister defies pressure to sack US ambassador over links with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein

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6 h. ago Lord Mandelson gave advice to 'best pal' Jeffrey Epstein as he faced criminal charges

Fresh revelations pile pressure on Britain’s ambassador to the US as Sir Keir Starmer urged to sack him

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7 h. ago Immigration debate live: Labour’s Mike Tapp accuses Reform’s Zia Yusuf of ‘feeding racism’ in fiery exchange

Debate grows fiery as Sir Keir Starmer faces growing calls to sack Lord Mandelson over links with Jeffrey Epstein

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7 h. ago Labour MPs call for Mandelson to be sacked over Epstein relationship

Sir Keir Starmer was urged to get rid of the US ambassador by backbenchers Richard Burgon and Nadia Whittome.

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8 h. ago Officials blocked release of a secret memo showed that Lord Mandelson urged Sir Tony Blair to meet disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein in 2002

The note, believed to have been written in May 2002 when Mandelson was a Labour backbencher, supposedly advised Blair that a meeting with the financier would be 'safe'.

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8 h. ago Phillipson reaches second stage of Labour deputy leadership race

All five candidates face a virtual hustings with Labour MPs on Wednesday evening.

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8 h. ago Immigration debate live: Labour and Reform set to clash over record small boat crossings and asylum protests

The debate takes place after Sir Keir Starmer has faced growing calls to sack Lord Mandelson over his links with Jeffrey Epstein

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8 h. ago Keir Starmer ally Bridget Phillipson sails through to next stage of Labour deputy leadership race as field slims to five after fellow minister drops out

The Education Secretary, who is being viewed as No10's de facto candidate, has now been nominated by 116 MPs in the battle to become Labour's number two.

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8 h. ago Labour MPs turn on Starmer after PM backs Mandelson despite ‘best pal’ Epstein revelations

PM under pressure to sack Labour peer as it’s claimed he advised paedophile: 'Fight for early release. Your friends love you'

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8 h. ago ‘Your friends love you,’ Mandelson told Epstein after 2008 charges, emails show

UK’s ambassador to US urged financier to ‘fight for early release’ after charges of procuring child for prostitutionThe British ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson, told Jeffrey Epstein to “fight for early release” and wrote: “Your friends stay with you and love you,” when the disgraced financier was facing charges of procuring a child for prostitution, according to leaked emails.The emails, first published by the Sun after circulating in Washington DC, will put further pressure on Lord Mandelson after he admitted on Tuesday that more “very embarrassing” details of his friendship with Epstein were likely to emerge but insisted he had never seen any “wrongdoing”. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Lord Mandelson urged 'best pal' Jeffrey Epstein to 'fight for early release' as paedophile was facing jail for child sex offences and told him: 'Your friends love you'

British ambassador Lord Mandelson kept his relationship with 'best pal' paedophile Jeffrey Epstein for four years after he was jailed for sex offences, emails reveal

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10 h. ago Lord Mandelson urged 'best pal' Jeffrey Epstein to 'fight for early release' AFTER paedophile was facing jail for child sex offences and told him: 'Your friends love you'

British ambassador Lord Mandelson kept his relationship with 'best pal' paedophile Jeffrey Epstein for four years after he was jailed for sex offences, emails reveal

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10 h. ago Lord Mandelson urged 'best pal' Jeffrey Epstein to 'fight for early release' AFTER paedophile was convicted of child sex offences and told him: 'Your friends love you'

British ambassador Lord Mandelson kept his relationship with 'best pal' paedophile Jeffrey Epstein for four years after he was jailed for sex offences, emails reveal

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10 h. ago Starmer faces growing Labour revolt amid claim Mandelson dealt with Epstein after conviction: UK politics live

PM refuses to say whether he was aware of Lord Mandelson’s relationship with Epstein before appointment

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10 h. ago McGovern quits Labour deputy leader race to back frontrunner Phillipson

Her withdrawal leaves five candidates competing to succeed Angela Rayner, who resigned last week amid a row over her tax affairs.

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10 h. ago Labour deputy leadership race claims first casualty as minister Alison McGovern pulls out and backs Bridget Phillipson to boost Starmer hopes of seeing off left

The Housing Minister admitted she was not going to get the 80 nominations from MPs required to get through to a vote by members.

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11 h. ago Peter Mandelson admits more 'embarrassing' Jeffrey Epstein messages will come out

The UK ambassador to the US Lord Mandelson is braced for more embarrassing exchanges between himself and the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein to emerge

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