The sacked civil servant was answering questions at the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At Prime Minister's Questions today, Kemi Badenoch pressed Sir Keir on whether Lord Mandelson was the right man to be the UK’s most senior diplomat in Washington. “Now more than ever ...

Peter Mandelson has been dramatically sacked from his role as UK ambassador to the US following mounting pressure over his newly revealed links to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. It comes after it was revealed that Lord Mandelson had maintained ties ...

LONDON -- British police on Monday arrested Peter Mandelson, a former U.K. ambassador to the United States, in a misconduct probe stemming from his ties to the late Jeffrey Epstein. It came days after a friendship with Epstein landed the former Prince ...

SIR Keir Starmer ignored advice to do security checks on Peter Mandelson before announcing him as US ambassador, documents show. The PM was told by then-civil service chief Simon Case to make sure

The former head of the Foreign Office, spoke publicly after being fired by Prime Minister Keir Starmer last week, following revelations the department overruled security vetting for Lord Peter Mandelson's appointment.