US EditionTrump: UK’s Starmer has ‘plenty of time to recover’ after ‘really bad’ ambassador pick
Trump called Peter Mandelson a “really bad pick” after Keir Starmer said he was not told the ambassador had failed security vetting.
- President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that Prime Minister Keir Starmer made a "really bad pick" appointing Peter Mandelson as ambassador to Washington, claiming Starmer has "plenty of time to recover."
- Lord Mandelson took the ambassador role in February 2025 but was dismissed seven months later due to ties to Jeffrey Epstein, after the Foreign Office ignored UKSV advice against granting security clearance.
- Prime Minister Keir Starmer apologized to the House of Commons on Monday, telling MPs it "beggars belief" that the Foreign Office withheld vetting information and insisting he would not have appointed Mandelson had he known of the security failures.
- Sacked top civil servant Sir Olly Robbins faces MPs on Tuesday answering questions on the vetting scandal, as Prime Minister Starmer blames him for deliberately withholding information about the security failure.
- Parliament holds an emergency debate on Tuesday regarding the Mandelson case, which Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch labeled a "matter of national security" threatening Starmer's premiership.
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The Mandelson Affair is stripping this government bare
There was a story about Herbert Asquith, the dazzling barrister turned Liberal prime minister, which summed up his lawyerly detachment from the high feelings of the House of Commons. As Gladstone’s home secretary in the early 1890s, Asquith had ordered soldiers to suppress striking miners at a colliery in Yorkshire, at which two protesters were killed. Years later, while he stood at the despatch box as an unpopular PM, he was heckled by a backbe…
Trump: UK’s Starmer has ‘plenty of time to recover’ after ‘really bad’ ambassador pick
President Trump went after British Prime Minister Keir Starmer over his former U.K. ambassador to the U.S., Peter Mandelson, who has faced scrutiny over files linked to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the United Kingdom acknowledged that he ‘exercised wrong judgment’ when he chose his Ambassador to Washington. I…
UK PM Starmer gets support from Trump as he faces spiraling scandal over ally’s ties to Epstein
President Trump offered a bit of support on social media Monday for embattled British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who has faced calls to resign over his appointment of a friend of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as ambassador to the US.
Trump Says UK’s Epstein-Linked Ambassador Was ‘Really Bad Pick’
U.S. President Donald Trump has criticized British Prime Minister Keir Starmer for his original decision in 2024 to choose Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States, a post he was fired from in September 2025 after correspondence came to light revealing the extent of his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In September, after details, including leaked emails, emerged of the long-running friendship between Mandelson…
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