According to revelations by the Guardian on Thursday, April 16, the former ambassador to the United States, implicated in the Jeffrey Epstein affair, was sent to Washington without having received the necessary security clearance. Keir Starmer said on Friday that he was stunned not to have been informed.

The decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as envoy to the Trump administration has backfired spectacularly and could bring down the prime minister.

Starmer’s disastrous decision to make New Labour veteran the US ambassador has led to months of political outcry