Keir Starmer has sacked Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the US over his association with financier Jeffrey Epstein. The Foreign Office minister, Stephen Doughty, told MPs that Mandelson had not disclosed the extent and depth of his friendship with Epstein, a convicted child sex offender, when he was appointed as the ambassador. He said No 10 had not known about emails from Mandelson to Epstein suggesting his 2008 conviction for soliciting a child for prostitution was wrongful and should be challenged
