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Focus shifts to No 10, and how tarnished peer was given role as ambassador to the US
The Guardian
|February 04, 2026
In many political scandals there is an agreed full stop, a time for the circus to move on. But for Downing Street, Peter Mandelson risks being a headache that simply won't end.
Mandelson's future in public life is now definitively over, or as definitive as you can be for a figure who, much as with the Conservative saying about Boris Johnson, would possibly need to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through his heart before you could completely rule out another comeback.
After resigning from Labour as yet more revelations about his links to Jeffrey Epstein emerged, Mandelson has now departed from the House of Lords, and efforts are under way to strip him of his title.
With Mandelson off the scene, the focus is very much on Downing Street, and how on earth the team around Keir Starmer thought it was a good idea to appoint such a tarnished, if well-connected, figure to be the ambassador to the Donald Trump court.
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