On Thursday, the government announced Mandelson’s dismissal, citing emails that were the subject of a Bloomberg News investigation.

For 40 years the wily operator made himself indispensable to successive Labour leaders - but has also caused them headaches.

Britain's Ambassador to the U.S., Peter Mandelson, has been fired by Prime Minister Keir Starmer over new information about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday fired U.S. Ambassador Peter Mandelson amid revelations of a close friendship with convicted U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Many Labour MPs think the prime minister should have seen the Mandelson scandal coming a mile off, writes Joe Pike.

The prime minister initially defended Lord Mandelson but sacked him as US ambassador after it was revealed he sent messages of support to Epstein even as the financier faced jail for sex offences in 2008.

It’s “now increasingly clear” that Starmer has “zero political nous whatsoever”, said Madeline Grant in The Spectator, and a “combination of arrogance, inexperience and ineptitude" has "robbed him of any judgement whatsoever”.

Imogen Walker – wife of PM's under-fire chief of staff Morgan McSweeney – was made an influential Commons whip along with colleague Gregor Poynton.