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Starmer orders release of files relating to Mandelson US ambassador decision

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PM tries to get on top of scandal over ex-minister’s Jeffrey Epstein links as Tories criticise move to withhold some records

Keir Starmer is preparing to release files relating to Peter Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador in an attempt to get ahead of the widening scandal over the former senior Labour figure’s conduct, in what one minister described as “drawing a line in the sand”.

The Conservatives had been preparing to force the publication of the records – including what Mandelson may have told Starmer about his relationship with the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein before being appointed to Washington – with a vote in the Commons.

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