Peter Mandelson should hand back US ambassador payoff or give it to charity, says minister – UK politics live

February 8, 2026

Foreign Office says it will review payoff given to Mandelson after he was sacked

McFadden is asked how he feels given he has known Mandelson a long time. He says how he feels is secondary to the feelings of the “women who were involved in this”, which is the most important thing in what he describes as a “terrible tale”.

McFadden said:

How I feel is a mixture of bewilderment, anger, and a sense of… this is somebody I’ve known on a political level for 30 years.

I was his minister, junior minister, at the department of business during the financial crisis. And, you know, that was a time of all hands to the pumps, banks collapsing, businesses collapsing, people wondering whether they could keep their homes or not.

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