US EditionLord Mandelson resigns from Labour Party over Epstein links
- On Sunday, February 1, 2026, Lord Peter Mandelson resigned from the Labour Party, writing to Hollie Ridley, Labour Party general secretary, to avoid causing further embarrassment and expressing regret.
- The US Department of Justice files released on Friday show bank records indicating three $25,000 transfers to Mandelson's accounts between 2003 and 2004, reviving scrutiny.
- The files list a $25,000 payment to Reinaldo Avila da Silva on May 14, 2003, and three $25,000 transfers totaling $75,000 to Mandelson's HSBC accounts .
- No 10 said on Monday it wants Mandelson to resign his peerage amid calls for an independent investigation, and reports said he may be summoned to give evidence before US Congress.
- A reminder that Mandelson was sacked as UK ambassador to Washington last year over Epstein links and apologised last month to Epstein's victims after four decades in Labour politics.
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Mandelson's greed is his undoing. But so is his attitude to Epstein's victims
Peter Mandelson may have Labour politics in his DNA, but his avaricious courtships of the rich and powerful have been his undoing. Lord Mandelson resigned from The Labour Party late on Sunday. The former business secretary who was made a peer in 2008, said he did not wish to cause the party “further embarrassment” over his links to Jeffrey Epstein. For some in Labour, who viewed Mandelson as an Icarus who basked in the sunshine of power, connect…
Peter Mandelson's relationship with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein has finally filled the long and tortuous political career of the co-founder of British neo-laborism, Minister...
Peter Mandelson: The ex-British envoy to the US seen in underwear pic in Epstein files
Peter Mandelson has resigned from the Labour Party because of new revelations concerning him in the latest tranche of documents linked to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Last year, the former British ambassador to the US was sacked from the position over his ties to the disgraced financier. Here’s what the new emails and documents reveal
Former minister Peter Mandelson quits Britain's Labour Party after new Epstein reports
Former British government minister Peter Mandelson said he had resigned as a member of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour Party after new reports of his ties with late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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