Days after Labour’s 2010 defeat former cabinet minister began dogged pursuit of ‘highly paid’ jobs, emails show
Peter Mandelson began seeking advice from the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on how to land “highly paid” senior roles with companies including BP and Glencore within days of Labour’s 2010 electoral defeat, emails show.
A flurry of messages, sent in the weeks and months following the collapse of the New Labour project, reveal how Epstein mentored Mandelson as the former cabinet minister touted himself for lucrative jobs at global businesses.
The emails. released by the US justice department among 3m pages of files on Epstein, lay bare the money-spinning opportunities available to departing ministers.
In particular, they reveal Mandelson’s dogged pursuit of a job with the global mining firm Glencore, which became known as the “billionaire factory” thanks to the huge rewards on offer to senior staff from its $60bn stock market float in 2011.
