2025-09-12
17 分钟This is The Guardian.
This afternoon, why a friendship with Jeffrey Epstein has cost Peter Mandelson his job.
He's one of the few unelected figures in British politics to have become a household name,
famously claimed as the architect of new labour.
He has served under three prime ministers across three decades.
Powerful?
Yes.
Influential?
Definitely.
Yet Peter Mandelson has had to resign in scandal from the government not once, but twice.
And so becoming Britain's ambassador to the US last year didn't come without controversy.
But the PM stood by his pick.
Until today.
In the last week,
Excruciating details of Mandelson's close friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have been splashed all over the news.
Amantso Toxic, he toppled Prince Andrew from public life, who,
even dead, is proving to be one of Donald Trump's biggest headaches.
So what did Kier Starmer know?
And what does it say about his judgement?
From The Guardian, I'm Noshi Nickbar.