Keir Starmer has accused disgraced politician Peter Mandelson of “betraying his country” and repeatedly lying to get the job as Britain's Washington ambassador.
The Jeffrey Epstein saga has become deeply damaging to the British Prime Minister’s own authority after he admitted to parliament that he knew Mr Mandelson had continued his relationship with the paedophile financier after Epstein's release from jail on a child prostitution conviction.
The case has spiralled into a full-blown political crisis for Downing Street, engulfing Labour’s upper ranks, with Mr Starmer fighting accusations of catastrophic misjudgement.
Keir Starmer speaking during Prime Minister's Question
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