{"id":148741,"date":"2025-09-11T10:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T10:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/148741\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T10:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T10:51:08","slug":"u-k-ambassador-to-u-s-peter-mandelson-fired-by-prime-minister-keir-starmer-over-jeffrey-epstein-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/148741\/","title":{"rendered":"U.K. Ambassador to U.S. Peter Mandelson fired by Prime Minister Keir Starmer over Jeffrey Epstein ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  Lawmakers&#8217; response to alleged Trump letter <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cbsn-fusion-trump-doubles-down-on-alleged-epstein-birthday-letter-its-not-my-signature-thumbnail.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/lawmakers-have-split-response-to-alleged-trump-letter-to-epstein\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>          Lawmakers have split response to alleged Trump letter to Epstein<\/p>\n<p>          01:58<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>British Prime Minster Keir Starmer has sacked his ambassador to the United States, long-time Labour Party politician Peter Mandelson, after days of revelations about Mandelson&#8217;s years-long friendship with the late financier and convicted sex offender\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/feature\/jeffrey-epstein\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In light of the additional information in emails written by Peter Mandelson, the Prime Minister has asked the Foreign Secretary to withdraw him as Ambassador,&#8221; the British government said in a statement released Thursday. &#8220;The emails show that the depth and extent of Peter Mandelson&#8217;s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein is materially different from that known at the time of his appointment. In particular Peter Mandelson&#8217;s suggestion that Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;s first conviction was wrongful and should be challenged is new information. In light of that, and mindful of the victims of Epstein&#8217;s crimes he has been withdrawn as Ambassador with immediate effect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1746982264760.png#.png\" alt=\"1746982264760.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  U.K. Ambassador Peter Mandelson on &#8220;Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,&#8221; May 11, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>                CBS News<\/p>\n<p>This breaking news story will be updated.<\/p>\n<p>          Jeffrey Epstein Case<br \/>\n                          <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/feature\/jeffrey-epstein\/?intcid=CNI-00-10aaa3a\" class=\"component__view-more component__view-more--lg\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                More<\/p>\n<p>              <\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/tucker-reals\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tucker  Reals<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Tucker Reals is CBSNews.com&#8217;s foreign editor, based in the CBS News London bureau. He has worked for CBS News since 2006, prior to which he worked for The Associated Press in Washington, D.C., and London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lawmakers&#8217; response to alleged Trump letter Lawmakers have split response to alleged Trump letter to Epstein 01:58 British&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,7676,14825,7672,3,8454,1049,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-148741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-britain","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-keir-starmer","tag-news","tag-peter-mandelson","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}