Keir Starmer's former chief of staff is under pressure to testify to parliament about the theft of his phone containing explosive messages to Peter Mandelson. Kemi Badenoch said Morgan McSweeney should give evidence in person to MPs about the disastrous appointment of Lord Mandelson if key messages on his phone have been lost. The Tory leader said it was time to 'end the cover up' over the disgraced peer, who Keir Starmer appointed as US ambassador despite being warned about his 'particularly close' relationship with Jeffrey Epstein....read
Senior members of president's transition team said that the 'arrogant' peer should not be handed the job because of past criticism, which included branding Trump 'a danger to the world' and a 'racist'.
Billionaire businessman Sheikh Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber says his family home in north London's Hampstead Garden Suburb is the property of his wife Makiyah.
As clients severed ties with the company earlier this year over the scale of his friendship with the disgraced child abuser, the firm bought out his final shares so he had no links left to it.
Epstein's private schedule, exclusively revealed by this newspaper last year, showed that the Labour peer was due to have two meetings with the disgraced financier.
Jeffrey Epstein illegally supplied Peter Mandelson with drugs while he was a government minister. In one email Mandelson boldly asks Epstein where he will get more 'triangles'.
Yesterday, files released by the Government showed Prime Minister Keir Starmer had taken a minimal role in the appointment of Peter Mandelson as the UK's ambassador to the US.
Downing Street said there was 'no requirement' for Sir Keir Starmer to interview the disgraced peer before handing him the most high-profile and sensitive post in the diplomatic service.
Wearing crisp white bathrobes with their hair still damp, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson sit on either side of their perverted ringmaster.
The picture, which shows the disgraced ex-prince and former US ambassador in bathrobes, while Epstein is fully clothed, is believed to have been taken in Massachusetts.
The paedophile financier said in an email that the former prime minister had discussed the 'nature that religion plays in world conflicts' during the 2002 meeting.
Official documents revealed that Lord Mandelson was handed the extraordinary golden goodbye despite being sacked in disgrace over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
As many as 100,000 records and messages are believed to have been gathered about the Labour grandee's appointment as US Ambassador and his sacking over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
In documents released today national security adviser Jonathan Powell appeared to suggest that Morgan McSweeney, Sir Keir's former chief of staff was at fault.
Lord Mandelson was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office on February 23 after Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle passed information suggesting he was a flight risk.
Lindsay Hoyle told MPs he passed on the information to Scotland Yard that led to Lord Mandelson being dramatically arrested at his home on Monday afternoon.
Scotland Yard received new intelligence that the disgraced former minister presented a 'flight risk' and a decision was taken at a senior level to arrest him as soon as possible.
Flanked by suit-clad police officers, the disgraced former minister was led out of his £7.6million property in Camden and taken into custody shortly before 5pm on Monday.
Peter Mandelson has been released on bail after being quizzed late into the night over allegations he leaked sensitive information to Epstein during his time as business secretary.
Peter Mandelson was being quizzed late into the night after being arrested at his London home over allegations he leaked sensitive information to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
The disgraced former minister was led away by detectives who have spent weeks investigating allegations that he leaked sensitive information to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
From Donald Trump to Bill Gates and Peter Mandelson, Deep Dive's forensic database tracks how famous figures have been tied to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Global Counsel, which has offices in cities including London, Berlin, Doha and Washington DC, said it had stopped trading - with the majority of its 80 UK staff made redundant.
Sir Keir Starmer's former chief of staff Morgan McSweeney emailed Lord Mandelson to query his ties to the paedophile before he was appointed Britain's ambassador to the US in December 2024.
Sources claim the removal of Sir Chris Wormald was driven by Sir Keir Starmer's desire to keep a 'tight grip' on the private messages released in relation to the appointment of Peter Mandelson.
Last week, I did something that many people will have been surprised by. I made the difficult decision, and one no Scottish party leader would want to make, to call for a change in Downing Street .
The former British ambassador to the US received a letter formally requesting he appears for an interview to help them 'uncover the identities of Mr Epstein's co-conspirators and enablers'.
In the files released by the DOJ Mandelson appears to have given the disgraced financier 'critical information' while serving as business secretary during the 2008 financial crash.
Labour sources said the Prime Minister offered to put Ben Wegg-Prosser in the House of Lords when he was trying to recruit him as a minister after the election in 2024.
Mr Sarwar joked today he had taken the 'nuclear option' by calling for Sir Keir to go on Monday, in the wake of the scandal around the appointment of Lord Peter Mandelson as US ambassador.
Writing to Phillips, Conservatives raised concerns over a 'pattern of behaviour at the top of Government' which refuses to acknowledge the appointment of Mandelson.
Lord Mandelson is the most toxic figure in the British political establishment and that is trouble for Wes Streeting. There's one fascinating reason why Wes Streeting is so embarrassed.
Jonathan Powell had been a vocal champion of Peter Mandelson getting the plum diplomatic role in the US, despite the latter's extensive links to Jeffrey Epstein.
Emails suggest Lord Mandelson knew Epstein from about 1999 or 2000, with previous documents showing the American covering his travel bills as far back as 2003
Documents show Mandelson about first meeting Epstein at the summer home of Lynn Forester de Rothschild in Martha's Vineyard, an island enclave of the super rich in New England.
The disgraced former Labour peer appeared to speak scornfully of the UK, as shown in more than 3 million Epstein files released by the US Department of Justice.
Emails released by US officials show the former Duchess of York's 'desperate' situation was discussed by Epstein and Peter Mandelson following the humiliating newspaper exposé in 2010.
The Health Secretary broke ranks on Monday night by releasing his private messages to Peter Mandelson in a bid to distance himself from the disgraced peer.
Even Anas Sarwar's close allies accept that he has now gambled his political future by demanding Sir Keir Starmer's resignation - and that it may have backfired badly.
Downing Street accused Mr Streeting of co-ordinating with Anas Sarwar to call for Keir Starmer to quit over the Peter Mandelson scandal, the Health Secretary's spokesman said.
The Prime Minister, who is facing the biggest crisis of his 18-month premiership, attempted to strike a defiant tone in an address to a packed gathering of his mutinous party in Parliament.
At a rally in Birmingham he said the party had opened its recruitment process for people to stand to be MPs with an eye to a vote later this year or in 2027.
Mr Farage will use a speech this afternoon to outline his plans for his frontbench team, telling party members to be ready to go to the polls by the end of the year.
Ministers are under pressure to claw back a £50,000 payoff handed to Peter Mandelson when he was sacked as US ambassador over his links to Jeffrey Epstein.
Despairing Government backbenchers argue that unless the Prime Minister quits over the Peter Mandelson crisis, the party is heading for disaster at the Gorton and Denton by-election later this month,
The links between Peter Mandelson, Jeffrey Epstein and Putin-linked oligarch Oleg Deripaska are revealed by emails in which Epstein explored buying a luxury apartment close to the Kremlin.
