{"id":422264,"date":"2026-02-12T19:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/422264\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T19:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:18:07","slug":"the-take-how-deep-do-epsteins-ties-to-britains-elite-go-crime-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/422264\/","title":{"rendered":"The Take: How deep do Epstein\u2019s ties to Britain\u2019s elite go? | Crime News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PodcastPodcast,  The Take<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subhead\">New files expose Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s ties to Britain\u2019s elite. Could the fallout shake Keir Starmer\u2019s Labour?<\/p>\n<p>Published On 12 Feb 202612 Feb 2026<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>Ex-Prince Andrew was the tip of the iceberg. The latest trove of Epstein files reveals new details about former United Kingdom envoy Peter Mandelson\u2019s \u201cbest pal\u201d relationship with the convicted US sex offender that have pushed Prime Minister Keir Starmer\u2019s Labour Party into a new crisis. Is this the scandal that defines Labour?<\/p>\n<p>In this episode:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list<br \/>\nKieran Andrieu (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kieran_andrieu?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow\">@kieran_andrieu<\/a>) \u2013 political economist and Novara Media contributor<\/p>\n<p>Episode credits:<\/p>\n<p>This episode was produced by Melanie Marich, with Sar\u00ed el-Khalili, Chloe Li, Spencer Cline, Maya Hamadeh, Tuleen Barakat, Sonia Bhagat and our host, Malika Bilal. It was edited by Tamara Khandaker.<\/p>\n<p>Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editors are Hisham Abu Salah and Mohannad al-Melhemm. Alexandra Locke is The Take\u2019s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera\u2019s head of audio.<\/p>\n<p>@AJEPodcasts on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJEPodcasts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ajepodcasts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AJEPodcasts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLzGHKb8i9vTwjZkiFu6LhzsLUKFkYO60I\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PodcastPodcast, The Take New files expose Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s ties to Britain\u2019s elite. Could the fallout shake Keir Starmer\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[924,59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-422264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-greatbritain","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422264","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=422264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}