Nick Thomas-Symonds’ earlier communications with sacked U.S. envoy were not in Monday’s release of files on Peter Mandelson.
LONDON — Messages between Peter Mandelson and a second high-ranking British government figure are missing from the public disclosures forced by the Jeffrey Epstein scandal because of another reported phone theft, according to documents seen by POLITICO.
Nick Thomas-Symonds, the Cabinet minister overseeing the U.K.’s “reset” in relations with the EU, held a formal meeting with Mandelson in January last year about how the then-ambassador might support the ambition from D.C., official disclosures published on Monday show.
However, the files contained no record of earlier communications that took place between the Cabinet Office minister and Mandelson, who was sacked as envoy to the U.S. over his friendship with the late convicted sex offender Epstein on Sept. 11 last year.
Just over a month later, on Oct. 15, Thomas-Symonds reported to police and government officials that his personal phone had been snatched late at night.
