Ex-peer sacked as US ambassador over Epstein links was offered £75,000, documents released by Cabinet Office show
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Peter Mandelson was offered a severance payment of £75,000 after initially asking the Foreign Office to pay him more than £500,000 upon his sacking as US ambassador, newly released documents reveal.
Exchanges in the documents released by the Cabinet Office suggested that officials did “well to get this settlement down this low with minimal fuss”, after Mandelson was forced to resign as ambassador to the US because of newly disclosed details about his long friendship with the child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The initial release of the documents covers the vetting of Mandelson as a potential US ambassador as well as discussions around his dismissal in autumn last year.
