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Lord Mandelson was not interviewed for US ambassador job
Lord Peter Mandelson was appointed UK ambassador to the US without an interview despite known Epstein links; appointment process has since been changed to include formal interviews, officials said.
- Direct ministerial appointment to Washington DC bypassed the usual panel interview, and Lord Peter Mandelson was sacked a day after Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer told MPs he retained confidence despite incriminating emails.
- Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer insisted on Mandelson’s appointment to build links with the Trump administration, while the Cabinet Office ran propriety checks and asked Mandelson to complete a conflict of interest form, but confirmed the appointment before vetting finished.
- Bloomberg published a full set of emails after a media inquiry on Tuesday evening, showing Lord Peter Mandelson exchanged supportive messages with Jeffrey Epstein and stayed at Epstein’s Manhattan flat in 2009.
- Sir Chris Wormald told MPs the procedure has been revised since Mandelson’s sacking, with civil servants summoned to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee and MPs pressing the Cabinet Office to disclose information given to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.
- The scandal amplifies questions about vetting and reputational risk across government, intensifying scrutiny of civil service duty of care and generating sustained political fallout.
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