Keir Starmer faces mounting pressure over Peter Mandelson’s controversial ambassadorial appointment despite security concerns, sparking calls for resignation and political backlash in United Kingdom amid allegations linked to Jeffrey Epstein
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LONDON — Senior Cabinet ministers on Sunday rallied around U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, whose leadership is teetering over his decision to give Britain’s most important diplomatic job to Peter Mandelson, a scandal-tarnished politician and friend of...
Sunday, April 19th 2026 - 10:06 UTC Full article 0 comments “It is totally unacceptable that when the prime minister has to push forward a nomination, he is not told the candidate has been vetoed. It is unforgivable,” Starmer said
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faced calls Thursday to resign after it emerged that Peter Mandelson was initially denied security clearance for the post of ambassador to the United States, which he was eventually fired from over his close links to...
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LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has no plans to resign over revelations that his scandal-tainted pick for U.K. ambassador to Washington was appointed despite failing security checks, officials said Friday.
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LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has no plans to resign over revelations that his scandal-tainted pick for U.K. ambassador to Washington was appointed despite failing security checks, officials said Friday.
Starmer...
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LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has no plans to resign over revelations that his scandal-tainted pick for U.K. ambassador to Washington was appointed despite failing security checks, officials said Friday.
Starmer...
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he “absolutely furious” that he wasn’t told his scandal-tainted pick for U.K. ambassador to Washington had failed security checks before being appointed.
Starmer says he was kept in the dark,...
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he “absolutely furious” that he wasn’t told his scandal-tainted pick for U.K. ambassador to Washington had failed security checks before being appointed.
Starmer says he was kept in the dark,...
LONDON — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has no plans to resign over revelations that his scandal-tainted pick for U.K. ambassador to Washington was appointed despite failing security checks, officials said Friday.
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LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has no plans to resign over revelations that his scandal-tainted pick for U.K. ambassador to Washington was appointed despite failing security checks, officials said Friday.
Starmer...
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faced calls Thursday to resign after it emerged that Peter Mandelson was initially denied security clearance for the post of ambassador to the United States, which he was eventually fired from over his close links to...
Mandelson fired in September
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Peter Mandelson, Britain’s former ambassador to the United States, failed his security vetting before taking up...
British vetting officials recommended against granting top level security clearances to Peter Mandelson before he became ambassador to the United States last year, but were overruled by Britain’s foreign office, 10 Downing Street said on Thursday.
In a...