2026-02-05
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If I knew then what I know now.
he would never have been anywhere near government.
It's kind of a moral misjudgment as much
as it is a sort of a political misjudgment and that's why it's a really difficult thing for them to carry.
It feels
like it opens a window on the kinds of contact that possible between very rich people and very influential people and ministers.
It doesn't feel like Mandelson is the powerful person here.
It feels like Epstein is.
The political scandals surrounding the Labour Grandi Peter Mandelson and his relationship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein deepens,
with pressure now right at the heart of Keir Starmer's government.
From the Guardians Today in Focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Ha.
I'm joined by Archie Bland, the Guardian's head of national news.
Thanks so much for being with us in the studio Archie.
So I mean the scandal surrounding Lord Peter Mandelson is building a political scandal,
but also a corruption scandal.
We knew some detail of the relationship between Mandelson and the disgraced pedophile of financier Jeffrey Epstein,
but there is now new information, new photographs,
new evidence of financial transactions between them and, crucially,
the alleged sharing of confidential Downing Street information and market-sensitive information from Mandelson to Epstein.