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27500 payoff for sacking seen as 'value for money'
Daily Express
|March 13, 2026
LORD Mandelson's £75,000 taxpayer-funded payout for being sacked as US ambassador was seen as "value for money", a minister has claimed.
Labour's Nick Thomas-Symonds yesterday tried to defend the amount given to the ex-diplomat by pointing out that Mandelson asked for his contract to be paid out in full — more than £500,000.
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