The Epstein files reveal not just a catastrophic breach of trust, but the final act in a long political psychodrama. Donald Macintyre reveals how a man so adept at managing risk came to take one that could destroy a government – not to mention his own career – and says the answers lie deep in a life shaped by a fatal attraction to wealth and influence

Wes Streeting said Lord Peter Mandelson has betrayed multiple prime ministers after fresh revelations about the former cabinet minister’s links to Jeffrey Epstein emerged over the…

PM says former cabinet minister and peer lied about ‘extent and depth of the relationship’ and should not have been appointed as US ambassador