from HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to world@lemmy.world on 03 Feb 18:04
https://sh.itjust.works/post/54661475
In many political scandals there is an agreed full stop, a time for the circus to move on: maybe a resignation, certainly a police investigation. 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, at least until he breaks cover with another self-serving interview, 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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