Source: SFGate
“British Prime Minister Keir Starmer acknowledged Monday that he made the wrong judgment when he picked Jeffrey Epstein ’s friend Peter Mandelson as U.K. ambassador to Washington, batting away a barrage of calls to resign over a scandal that has left his leadership teetering. Starmer said he would have withdrawn the appointment if he’d known Mandelson had failed security checks, as he tried to explain why Mandelson was given the U.K.’s most important diplomatic post. Starmer placed blame squarely on Foreign Office officials who he said failed to tell him about the security concerns and approved Mandelson’s appointment despite them. Starmer told lawmakers in the House of Commons that ‘I would not have gone ahead with the appointment’ had he known the truth.” (04/20/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/british-prime-minister-starmer-faces-angry-22215247.php