The peer said he resigned his membership of the party to avoid causing it ‘further embarrassment’
Opposition parties are calling for an inquiry into how Peter Mandelson came to be appointed ambassador to Washington in the light of the new Epstein revelations, and the peer’s resignation from the Labour party.
A Conservative party spokesperson said:
Lord Mandelson is competely disgraced. Yet Keir Starmer lacked the backbone to take action, allowing Mandelson to resign from the Labour party instead of kicking him out.
Keir Starmer and his chief of staff [Morgan McSweeney] appointed Mandelson ambassador despite his relationship with Epstein, and then refused to act even as the mountain of evidence against him grew.
