In today\u2019s newsletter: A police investigation, newly released documents and long\u2011standing questions about\u200b accountability have converged to place one of Labour\u2019s most enduring figures under unprecedented scrutiny<\/p>\n
Good morning. Older readers may remember Peter Mandelson as a man in a sharp suit drifting through New Labour\u2019s 1990s heyday like a Bond villain with a Filofax. An architect of Labour\u2019s modernisation and a lightning rod for right-wing press ire, he has been in the orbit of power for more than three decades.<\/p>\n
That run has now come to a shuddering halt after the release of the so-called Epstein files by the US Department of Justice, which detail the extent of Mandelson\u2019s contact with the late billionaire financier and convicted child sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein. While the Met police investigate Mandelson on suspicion of misconduct in public office, the disclosures from the files have also raised urgent questions about judgment, access and accountability at the highest levels of public life.<\/p>\n
UK politics <\/strong><\/em>| Labour MPs have warned that Keir Starmer\u2019s days as prime minister are numbered<\/a> after a day of fury over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador despite his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n Gaza <\/strong><\/em>| Israeli forces have bulldozed part of a Gaza cemetery containing the war graves of dozens of British, Australian and other allied soldiers<\/a> killed in the first and second world wars.<\/p>\n Crime <\/strong><\/em>| An 18-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a student in his 20s was stabbed in Leicester city centre<\/a> and later died in hospital, Leicestershire police have said.<\/p>\n Media <\/strong><\/em>| Washington Post editor in chief Matt Murray on Wednesday morning announced internally a \u201cbroad strategic reset\u201d that will result in \u201csignificant\u201d layoffs across the company<\/a>.<\/p>\n Immigration <\/strong><\/em>| Donald Trump\u2019s border tsar said about 700 federal agents would leave Minnesota<\/a>, a large drop in agents on the ground but still leaving about 2,000 agents there, far above typical levels for the state.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In today\u2019s newsletter: A police investigation, newly released documents and long\u2011standing questions about\u200b accountability have converged to place one of Labour\u2019s most enduring figures under unprecedented scrutiny Good morning. Older readers may remember Peter Mandelson as a man in a sharp suit drifting through New Labour\u2019s 1990s heyday like a Bond villain with a Filofax. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}