UK ambassador to US says he regrets continuing his association with paedophile financier ‘far longer than I should have done’
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The UK’s ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson, has said more “very embarrassing” details of his friendship with the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein will come out, as he said he had never seen any “wrongdoing”.
His admission comes after US lawmakers released Epstein’s 50th “birthday book”, in which Mandelson called him “my best pal”, in a handwritten note.
In his first public comments since the revelation, Lord Mandelson said he “never sought, nor did [Epstein] offer” any introductions to women in the same way as he had done for others, “perhaps it’s because I’m a gay man”.
