{"id":469808,"date":"2026-03-11T14:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/469808\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T14:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:57:09","slug":"starmer-was-warned-of-reputational-risk-over-mandelsons-links-with-epstein-files-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/469808\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer was warned of ‘reputational risk’ over Mandelson’s links with Epstein, files show"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Analysis\"What we may – or may not – see in the filespublished at 13:57 GMT<\/p>\n

13:57 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Damian Grammaticas
Political correspondent<\/p>\n

A word of caution about what we are getting today.<\/p>\n

These documents won\u2019t paint the full, final picture of the saga of Lord Mandelson\u2019 appointment as US ambassador, his actions, and those of the prime minister too.<\/p>\n

We should get messages, emails and other documents from when Peter Mandelson was being considered for the post and offered it, including those produced as part of his vetting process.<\/p>\n

But we won\u2019t get ones from the time after that, when he was in Washington. They\u2019ll come later.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a lot to collect and prepare. A parliamentary committee is approving what can be redacted or withheld, for reasons of government or diplomatic security. That all takes time.<\/p>\n

And the Metropolitan Police have asked that some things are not published, as a precaution, while they conduct their own investigation. We know that includes correspondence between Downing Street and Lord Mandelson during his vetting, with follow-up questions for him and his answers, which won\u2019t be coming today.<\/p>\n

Those will only be made public when the police give the go-ahead.<\/p>\n

Those documents may prove key when it comes to making final evaluations about the actions of Sir Keir and Lord Mandelson. Who knew what, when, matters.<\/p>\n

As a reminder – the documents just landed. We’re beginning to go through them now, so stay with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What we may – or may not – see in the filespublished at 13:57 GMT 13:57 GMT Damian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-469808","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\/469808","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=469808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}