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Mandelson scandal raises fresh doubt about Starmer’s political judgment

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Mandelson scandal raises fresh doubt about Starmer’s political judgment

Messy exit of ambassador to US was entirely predictable, leaving many to ask why PM failed to see it coming

When Keir Starmer sat down with his new foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, in his No 10 study on Thursday morning the writing was already on the wall for Peter Mandelson.

The prime minister had spent the evening before reading through the new emails – in all their nauseating detail – between his ambassador to Washington and the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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