HR experts have been drafted in to ensure due process was followed before Lord Mandelson was sacked as Britain's ambassador to the US over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein

Lord Mandelson is under mounting pressure to resign after it was claimed he worked with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein on a £1billion deal involving a taxpayer-owned bank.

Lord Mandelson looked doomed last night after emails showed that he had urged Jeffrey Epstein to 'fight for early release' as he faced jail for child sex offences.