Risky business

STARMER WARNED OVER MANDELSON APPOINTMENT AS AMBASSADOR TO US

- by WILL STONE

KEIR Starmer was warned about giving a job to Peter Mandelson - who demanded a payoff of almost £550,000 after being sacked as US ambassador.

The PM was told he faced a "reputational risk" over the peer's links to dead paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, emails show.

Mandelson was sacked in September amid the scandal over his friendship with Epstein.