Keir Starmer: I’d never have appointed Mandelson if I’d known what I know now

As questions about his judgment mount, PM breaks silence over sacking of ambassador to US

Keir Starmer has broken his silence about sacking Peter Mandelson as US ambassador over the envoy’s close friendship with the financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Amid mounting questions about his political judgment, Starmer was asked why Lord Mandelson was appointed in the first place, given that the Labour peer’s friendship with Epstein had long been public knowledge.