{"id":202256,"date":"2026-04-19T01:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T01:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202256\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T01:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T01:20:10","slug":"uks-lammy-signals-support-for-pm-starmer-over-latest-mandelson-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202256\/","title":{"rendered":"UK’s Lammy signals support for PM Starmer over latest Mandelson row"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON, April 18 (Reuters) – Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy signalled his support for Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Saturday over the ongoing row<\/a> \u200babout the decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as ambassador \u200cto the United States.Labour veteran Mandelson was appointed as ambassador by Starmer and subsequently sacked<\/a> over his ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, \u200bin a scandal that has brought the British leader’s judgement \u200binto question.<\/p>\n

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Starmer on Friday faced renewed pressure to resign<\/a> after \u2060the government said security vetting had recommended Mandelson not be \u200bappointed, but that Foreign Office officials had overruled that recommendation without \u200bthe prime minister’s knowledge.<\/p>\n

Lammy, who was in charge of the Foreign Office at the time and is now deputy prime minister and justice secretary, told \u200bthe Guardian newspaper it was inexplicable Starmer had not been informed \u200bof the initial vetting recommendation.<\/p>\n

“I have absolutely no doubt at all, knowing the \u200cPM \u2060as I do, that had he known that Peter Mandelson had not passed the vetting, he would never, ever have appointed him ambassador,” Lammy told the newspaper.<\/p>\n

The comments come ahead of a \u200bstatement in parliament \u200bon Monday afternoon \u2060in which Starmer has promised to set out the full facts of what happened.<\/p>\n

While political opponents \u200bhave said his version of events is not \u200bcredible and \u2060called for him to resign, senior members of his own Labour Party – including those seen as rivals for his position – have not \u2060publicly \u200bcriticised him.<\/p>\n

A lawyer for Mandelson did not \u200bprovide a comment on Thursday when the Guardian newspaper first reported he had failed \u200bpart of the vetting process.<\/p>\n

Reporting by William James
\nEditing by Rod Nickel<\/p>\n

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