Starmer-Mandelson newest: Met Police looking out two properties linked to ex-Lord amid Epstein investigation | EUROtoday

Before Mandelson was appointed the UK’s ambassador to Washington, Pierce was already doing an excellent job.

Eleanor Mills says the present scandal is a self-inflicted wound for Keir Starmer and one other instance of an amazing lady of a sure age being changed by one of many boys:

Two folks believed to be cops arrived exterior Lord Mandelson’s home close to Regent’s Park in central London on Friday afternoon.

One of them seemed to be carrying a small physique digicam. They knocked on the door and entered the home.

After a short time, the 2 folks left Lord Peter Mandelson’s home to gather gadgets from their automobile.

They collected a blue field and a big bag, earlier than re-entering the property close to Regent’s Park in central London.

A person has since left Lord Peter Mandelson’s home and obtained right into a automobile. He declined to remark, together with on something taking place contained in the residence.

Senior authorities figures must hand over their messages with Peter Mandelson forward of the discharge of information associated to the prime minister’s choice to nominate the previous peer as US ambassador regardless of his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

The authorities is about to publish Mandelson’s vetting paperwork within the hopes that transparency will assist Sir Keir Starmer climate the political storm threatening his management, after he apologised to victims of Epstein for the appointment.

On Wednesday, the prime minister backed down and ceded management to parliament’s intelligence and safety committee (ISC) to resolve what wouldn’t be launched into the general public area based mostly on nationwide safety issues.

Our Whitehall editor Kate Devlin experiences:

Mandelson declared he wouldn’t conceal “under a rock” regardless of a sequence of surprising revelations about his relationship with the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein from his Wiltshire dwelling earlier this week.

In a weird interview revealed on Monday, carried out earlier than a number of the most severe allegations emerged, Mandelson stated that “hiding under a rock would be a disproportionate response to a handful of misguided historical emails, which I deeply regret sending.”

He added: “I too am amazed by some of the conversations I had and areas of my life where I was seeking advice from Epstein.”

He additionally praised Epstein’s dinner events and stated he couldn’t recall something associated to a unprecedented photograph, launched by as a part of the Epstein information, that pictured him in his underpants.

He stated he had “no idea what I am doing in this photograph or who the woman was. It looks as though she came in and showed me something on an iPad”.

Morgan McSweeney, seen as an ally of the disgraced peer, is taken into account the driving power behind Lord Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador.

This is regardless of his alleged information that Mandelson’s dealings with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein continued after the financier’s conviction for youngster intercourse offences.

As the prime minister’s right-hand man, Mr McSweeney is central to authorities technique and decision-making.

Police are looking out addresses in Wiltshire and Camden, north London, as a part of a misconduct in public workplace investigation launched into Lord Peter Mandelson.

Deputy Assistant Commissioner Hayley Sewart, of the Metropolitan Police, stated: “I can confirm that officers from the Met’s Central Specialist Crime team are in the process of carrying out search warrants at two addresses, one in the Wiltshire area, and another in the Camden area.

“The searches are associated to an ongoing investigation into misconduct in public workplace offences, involving a 72-year-old man.

“He has not been arrested and enquiries are ongoing.”

The prime minister’s allies have warned {that a} management coup by Angela Rayner might set off a common election.

One Labour determine who served on Sir Keir Starmer’s entrance bench advised The Telegraph: “Presumably Angela Rayner, if she got elected, would have a completely different agenda.

“If you come in with a completely different agenda then the country legitimately says, ‘We didn’t vote for this’.”

Responding to names of Labour MPs calling for Morgan McSweeney to be sacked, Luke Akehurst MP stated: “I’m not sure Morgan McSweeney should lose much sleep over this small collection of my PLP colleagues, all policy rebels on various issues, calling for his departure.”

The MP for North Durham added: “The same names repeatedly take the opportunity to share their hot takes with the media.”

Karl Turner MP was fast to fireplace again, saying: “I don’t think McSweeney will give a monkeys, Luke. But our PM should. And so should you. We aren’t some sort of fast food franchise. We are the Labour Party.

“Getting clever like this about those of us that have got the bottle to speak says more about you than it does about me.”

Labour MP John McDonnell has stated he “signed and wholeheartedly support[s]” Nadia Whittome’s Early Day movement calling for a public inquiry into the British public figures and Institutions linked to Epstein.