{"id":403044,"date":"2026-02-01T23:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T23:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/403044\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T23:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T23:32:13","slug":"lord-mandelson-resigns-from-labour-party-over-epstein-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/403044\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord Mandelson resigns from Labour Party over Epstein links"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meanwhile, emails in the files released on Friday also show Lord Mandelson tried to change government policy on a planned tax on bankers’ bonuses, following requests from Epstein. <\/p>\n

“Trying hard to amend,” Lord Mandelson wrote to Epstein in December 2009. “Treasury digging in but I am on [the] case.”<\/p>\n

At the time Lord Mandelson was business secretary in Gordon Brown’s government.<\/p>\n

Lord Mandelson has told the BBC that every UK and international bank was making the same argument about the impact on UK financial services, adding: “My conversations in government at the time reflected the views of the sector as a whole not a single individual.”<\/p>\n

The recently released bank statements, first reported by the Financial Times, external<\/a>, appear to show three separate payments referencing Lord Mandelson, who was Labour MP for Hartlepool at the time, being sent from Epstein’s JP Morgan bank accounts.<\/p>\n

The first, dated 14 May 2003, shows a payment was sent to a Barclays bank account where Reinaldo Avila da Silva – Lord Mandelson’s partner at the time – is named as “A\/C”, typically an abbreviation for account. <\/p>\n

In that payment, a “Peter Mandelson” is named on the account as “BEN”, which is often an abbreviation for beneficiary. <\/p>\n

The second and third payments of $25,000 were made to HSBC accounts only days apart in June 2004. In both, “Peter Mandelson” is the only person named, again as “BEN”. <\/p>\n

It is unclear if the three payments ever made it into any of the named accounts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, emails in the files released on Friday also show Lord Mandelson tried to change government policy on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-403044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}