{"id":406273,"date":"2026-02-03T21:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/406273\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T21:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:28:07","slug":"uk-police-investigating-mandelson-after-epstein-files-revelations-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/406273\/","title":{"rendered":"UK police investigating Mandelson after Epstein files revelations \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The police didn\u2019t give a name, but 72-year-old Mandelson \u2014 a central figure in the politics of the U.K\u2019s ruling Labour party for decades \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/peter-mandelson-built-britains-labour-establishment-now-its-torching-him\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/peter-mandelson-built-britains-labour-establishment-now-its-torching-him\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has appeared in the latest tranche of Epstein-related documents<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Files released by the U.S. Department of Justice show emailed communications between Mandelson and Epstein, including discussions about sensitive government policy. Mandelson didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>A government spokesperson told POLITICO on Tuesday: \u201cThe government stands ready to provide whatever support and assistance the police need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Keir Starmer \u2014 who appointed Mandelson as the U.K.\u2019s ambassador to the U.S. a year ago \u2014 told his Cabinet on Tuesday that the fresh allegations were \u201cdisgraceful,\u201d according to people familiar with the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Stanley-Smith and Andrew McDonald contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The police didn\u2019t give a name, but 72-year-old Mandelson \u2014 a central figure in the politics of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6229,1343,8926,59,57,58,420,50,424,56,54,158,55],"class_list":["post-406273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-communications","tag-courts","tag-department","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-keir-starmer","tag-news","tag-peter-mandelson","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406273","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=406273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}