{"id":72357,"date":"2026-04-21T20:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/u-k-pm-starmer-under-pressure-over-epstein-linked-appointment-crisis\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T20:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:55:13","slug":"u-k-pm-starmer-under-pressure-over-epstein-linked-appointment-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/u-k-pm-starmer-under-pressure-over-epstein-linked-appointment-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"U.K. PM Starmer under pressure over Epstein-linked appointment crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Prime Minister Keir Starmer has come under pressure over his appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States. Mandelson was forced out after it was revealed that he had ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, with the former diplomat denying any wrongdoing. NBC News&#8217; Raf Sanchez reports on the latest political pressures facing Starmer.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Prime Minister Keir Starmer has come under pressure over his appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States. Mandelson was forced out after it was revealed that he had ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, with the former diplomat denying any wrongdoing. NBC News&#8217; Raf Sanchez reports on the latest political &#8230; <a title=\"U.K. PM Starmer under pressure over Epstein-linked appointment crisis\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/u-k-pm-starmer-under-pressure-over-epstein-linked-appointment-crisis\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about U.K. PM Starmer under pressure over Epstein-linked appointment crisis\">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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72357","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=72357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}