Starmer has insulted Epstein's victims and taken public for fools

KEIR STARMER spent years vilifying his Tory predecessors, but the Prime Minister is far worse than any of them.

- Sam Lister Deputy Editor

UK ambassador is a plum appointment, made despite Mandelson's links to Epstein

After days of fury in the country and on his own backbenches, he had the gall to apologise to the victims of Jeffrey Epstein.But not because he had ignored Peter Mandelson’s well-known association with a convicted paedophile.

He said a pitiful sorry for believing the “lies” the man dubbed the Prince of Darkness some 30 years ago had told.

It is an insult first and foremost to the victims, but also to every single one of us. The PM is taking the public for fools.

What has come out in recent days about Mandelson has been so utterly shocking, a betrayal of the country on a scale not seen for generations.

But the allegations have been about money and the abuse of his privileged position in government.

Mandelson’s association with Epstein after his conviction has long been a matter of public record. The PM was reminded of Mandelson’s decision to stay in Epstein’s New York house while the paedophile was in prison.

But Starmer took the decision to appoint him as the UK’s ambassador to Washington in the full knowledge of that fact.

It is one of the plum jobs a prime minister can appoint.

The ambassadorial residence is a place of beauty and history.