'Mandelson scandal risks overshadowing state visit'

THE Peter Mandelson scandal engulfing Labour risks overshadowing Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK, Kemi Badenoch claims.

- By Martyn Brown Political Editor

The Tory leader said it was “extraor dinary” Sir Keir Starmer, right inset, had not yet “come clean”, in the run up to the US president’s arrival.

She accused the Prime Minister of “hiding from Parliament” as he failed to attend the emergency Commons debate on the dismissal of the US ambassador, below, and his relationship with the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein