{"id":4952,"date":"2026-02-02T01:44:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/world\/former-uk-minister-mandelson-quits-labour-after-new-epstein-revelations-reports\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T01:44:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:44:26","slug":"former-uk-minister-mandelson-quits-labour-after-new-epstein-revelations-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/world\/former-uk-minister-mandelson-quits-labour-after-new-epstein-revelations-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Former UK minister Mandelson quits Labour after new Epstein revelations: reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"medium-insert-images ui-sortable\">\n<figure contenteditable=\"false\">\n    <figcaption contenteditable=\"true\" class=\"\" spellcheck=\"false\">Peter Mandelson, former British ambassador to the US, attends an interview pre-recorded for the BBC&#8217;s &#8216;Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg&#8217; TV programme, in London, Britain, January 10, 2026.\u2014 Reuters\u00a0<\/figcaption><grammarly-extension data-grammarly-shadow-root=\"true\" class=\"dnXmp\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; pointer-events: none; z-index: 1; --rem: 16;\"\/><grammarly-extension data-grammarly-shadow-root=\"true\" class=\"dnXmp\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; pointer-events: none; z-index: 1; --rem: 16;\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former British government minister Peter Mandelson has resigned as a member of Prime Minister Keir Starmer&#8217;s Labour Party after new reports of his ties with disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein, the media reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Mandelson, who was fired by Starmer as Britain&#8217;s ambassador to the United States last year after previous revelations about his connections to Epstein, said he did not wish to cause &#8220;further embarrassment&#8221; to Labour, the reports said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have been further linked this weekend to the understandable furore surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, and I feel regretful and sorry about this,&#8221; Mandelson said in a letter to the Labour Party reported by the <i>BBC<\/i> and other news organisations, which <i>Reuters <\/i>was not immediately able to obtain.<\/p>\n<p>Mandelson said he believed allegations about financial payments to him by Epstein, which appeared in British media based on files released by the US Justice Department, were false, and he would investigate them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While doing this, I do not wish to cause further embarrassment to the Labour Party, and I am therefore stepping down from membership of the party,&#8221; the letter said.<\/p>\n<p>Mandelson was key to the Labour Party&#8217;s electoral success when Tony Blair was prime minister, starting in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>He came under scrutiny last year after US lawmakers released documents, including a letter in which he called Epstein &#8220;my best pal&#8221;, leading to his dismissal as Britain&#8217;s envoy in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Mandelson also had a turbulent earlier career in domestic politics. 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