The British Ambassador to the United States of America, Labour’s ‘Prince of Darkness’ Peter Mandelson, has been ‘withdrawn’ from his role!


Keir Starmer sacks Peter Mandelson as the UK's ambassador to the US

Mandelson, appointed in December, faced mounting scrutiny over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein

Starmer's statement came moments before the government was due to answer an urgent about Mandelson's appointment - watch the Commons live above

An extraordinary end to an extraordinary career in public life. And this time, yes, surely it is the end.

The "third man" with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown in the creation of New Labour, Mandelson resigned from Blair's cabinet twice, spent four years in Brussels as Britain’s European Commissioner, and in the final stretch of Brown’s premiership he was essentially the deputy prime minister.

He has generally been seen to have done a very good job in those roles, just as - by common consensus in Whitehall and Washington - he had performed very well as ambassador.

But performance in the job has never been Mandelson’s problem.

And yet again it is something else which has brought him down.

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