Sir Keir Starmer’s aides in No10 rejected two offers from the Cabinet Office’s ethics chief to question Lord Mandelson over his links to the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
A due diligence report, which was compiled by the Cabinet Office’s propriety and ethics team in December 2024, warned that Lord Mandelson’s association friendship posed a major “reputational risk”.
Darren Tierney, who was leading the Cabinet Office’s ethics unit at the time, is believed to have approached the Prime Minister’s main allies in late 2024.
He offered to conduct formal interviews before Lord Mandelson was officially appointed as the UK’s ambassador to the US, The Telegraph has revealed.
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