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British politician Peter Mandelson<\/a> is stepping down from the United Kingdom\u2019s upper house of Parliament amid renewed scrutiny and the prospect of a criminal review into his ties to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n The speaker of the House of Lords, Michael Forsyth, said on Tuesday that Mandelson, 72, had notified the chamber of his intention to resign. Forsyth said the move would come into effect on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list<\/p>\n Mandelson, a former UK ambassador to the United States and longtime senior figure in the country\u2019s Labour Party, has come under intense pressure following the release of a new tranche of US government documents<\/a> related to Epstein.<\/p>\n The material includes emails from Mandelson to Epstein sharing political insights, including market-sensitive information during the 2008 financial crisis that critics say may have broken the law.<\/p>\n British police have said they are assessing reports of possible misconduct<\/a> \u201cto determine if they meet the criminal threshold for investigation\u201d.<\/p>\n The files also include bank documents suggesting Epstein transferred tens of thousands of dollars to accounts linked to Mandelson or his partner, Reinaldo Avila da Silva. Mandelson has said he does not recall such transactions and will examine the documents.<\/p>\n Additional material includes emails suggesting a friendly relationship between the two men after Epstein\u2019s 2008 convictions for sex offences, as well as an image showing Mandelson in his underwear beside a woman whose face was obscured by US authorities.<\/p>\n Mandelson told the BBC that he \u201ccannot place the location or the woman, and I cannot think what the circumstances were\u201d.<\/p>\n Starmer says he\u2019s \u2018appalled\u2019<\/p>\n British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Tuesday told his cabinet he was \u201cappalled by the information\u201d regarding Mandelson and was concerned more details would come to light, according to a Downing Street readout of a cabinet meeting.<\/p>\n Starmer also said he has ordered the civil service to conduct an \u201curgent\u201d review of all of Mandelson\u2019s contacts with Epstein while he was in government.<\/p>\n \u201cThe alleged passing on of emails of highly sensitive government business was disgraceful,\u201d the prime minister said, adding he was not yet \u201creassured that the totality of information had yet emerged\u201d regarding Mandelson\u2019s links with Epstein.<\/p>\n Mandelson, who was sacked from his post<\/a> as British ambassador to the US in September following earlier revelations about his Epstein ties, quit the Labour Party<\/a> on Sunday to avoid what he called \u201cfurther embarrassment\u201d.<\/p>\n In an interview with The Times conducted late last month and published on Tuesday, Mandelson described Epstein as a \u201cmaster manipulator,\u201d adding: \u201cI\u2019ve had a lot of bad luck, no doubt some of it of my own making.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are looking into allegations Peter Mandelson may have passed sensitive government information to Jeffrey Epstein. Published On…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[924,591,59,57,58,50,288,229,56,54,158,55,3544],"class_list":["post-406041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-crime","tag-europe","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-police","tag-politics","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406041","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=406041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}