Peter Mandelson

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer gives an interview at the Newcastle United Foundation Community Centre in Newcastle. Picture date: Thursday April 23, 2026. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire

Mandelson allegations politically motivated: Keir Starmer

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London. Picture date: Wednesday April 22, 2026. PA Photo.

Starmer: Mandelson allegations put to bed by Olly Robbins

Former Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) boss Sir Olly Robbins appearing before the Foreign Affairs Committee at the Houses of Parliament in London. The Foreign Office's top civil servant left his post after it emerged the department had overruled a security vetting process to clear Lord Peter Mandelson to become UK ambassador to the US. Picture date: Tuesday April 21, 2026. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA Wire

Robbins: No 10 was dismissive on vetting of Mandelson

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Stormont's first ministers say UK government must answer Ombudsman questions

First Minister Michelle O’Neill and deputy First Minister Emma Little Pengelly urged the Government to provide clarity after DUP leader Gavin Robinson claimed Marie Anderson, pictured, had been appointed to the role in 2019 “despite security concerns”.

Stormont leaders call for answers over vetting of former police ombudsman

Screen grab of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer following his statement in the House of Commons, London, on security vetting. Picture date: Monday April 20, 2026. PA Photo.

Starmer: Staggering I was not told Mandelson failed vetting check

House of Commons Handout photo issued by the House of Commons of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer giving a statement in the House of Commons, London, on security vetting. Picture date: Monday April 20, 2026. PA Photo.

Starmer to face further scrutiny over Peter Mandelson in emergency debate

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is under pressure over the appointment of Peter Mandelson to the role of US ambassador, despite failing vetting checks. Photo: Tom Nicholson/PA Wire

Starmer must go, says TUV, while DUP brand Mandelson affair 'a shambles'

Sir Keir Starmer in Paris on Friday for a summit to facilitate shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. Yet at home he seems battered by events. Pic: Tom Nicholson/PA

Ben Lowry: Like many PMs, Starmer seems to have been almost destroyed by office

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer meets with First Minister for Northern Ireland Michelle O'Neill and Deputy First Minister Emma Little Pengelly at The Culloden Hotel, Co. Down, Northern Ireland, during his visit to Belfast

High cost of home heating oil discussed as PM meets with NI political leaders

There is no record of Jeffrey Epstein visiting or staying at Hillsborough Castle, according to a search at the Northern Ireland Office (NIO).

No record of Jeffrey Epstein staying at Hillsborough Castle, according to trawl

The then Duke of York departs Westminster Abbey, London in 2023. Photo credit should read: Toby Melville/PA Wire

Epstein blamed King for Andrew job loss as Trade Envoy

Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald paid tribute to IRA bomber Bik McFarlane on the first anniversary of his death

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Politicians in Britain beacons of frankness, unlike here

Lord Peter Mandelson outside his home in north west London on Saturday.

Lord Peter Mandelson arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office

Sir Keir Starmer is weak on almost every important issue. But the impression that prime ministers, even with large majorities are liable to be shoved aside at any moment, is bound to be damaging. Pic: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Owen Polley: Starmer is a shambolic PM but any Labour replacement could be worse

Lord (Peter) Mandelson carrying his dog whilst leaving his home in north west London on Saturday. He has resigned from the Labour Party and quit the House of Lords since the latest tranche of Epstein Files was released in the US. Pic: Maja Smiejkowska/PA Wire

Ex NI secretary Mandelson seen for first time since invite to US Epstein probe
The former Northern Ireland secretary Peter Mandelson has been photographed for the first time since being asked to give evidence to the US Congress over his relationship with the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein .
By David Lynch

Sir Keir Starmer's leadership of the Labour Party has survived but his top team has undergone yet another reset

Letter: Inexperienced Labour Party in power

A bust of former US senator George Mitchell has been removed from the grounds of QUB over his links with Jeffrey Epstein. The senator is seen here at its unveiling in April 2023. Mr Mitchell has denied all wrongdoing and has expressed regret for ever having known Epstein

Ruth Dudley Edwards: I'm horrified that Queen’s has jumped on Epstein bandwagon

Morning View

Editorial: Starmer should be gone as PM but has no plausible successor

Morgan McSweeney who has quit as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's chief of staff after facing pressure in the Lord Peter Mandelson scandal.

Morgan McSweeney steps down as Keir Starmer's Chief of Staff amid Mandelson row

Morning View

Editorial: Claims against Mandelson of new magnitude in Epstein scandal

Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern and Senator George Mitchell (right) at an event to mark the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, at Queen's University in Belfast.

George Mitchell and Jeffrey Epstein links ‘unclear’, Bertie Ahern says

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking during a visit to Horntye Park Sports Complex in St Leonard's on Sea near Hastings, East Sussex. Picture date: Thursday February 5, 2026. PA Photo. Sir Keir has said he is "sorry for having believed Mandelson's lies and appointed him" British ambassador to Washington". Peter Nicholls/PA Wire

PM ‘sorry for believing Mandelson’s lies’ as he apologises to Epstein’s victims

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Met Office issues weather warning for rain over large parts of Northern Ireland

Peter Mandelson retired from House of Lords earlier this week amid controversy over his links to Jeffrey Epstein

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Before condemning Mandelson, remember we are all fallible

Northern Ireland Secretary of State Peter Mandelson with Alan Crosbie at the offices of the Irish Examiner in Cork in 2000. Northern Ireland was on the "cusp of a new beginning" with the return of the Stormont political institutions, officials predicted in 2000. Photo: Des Barry/PA Wire

NI was on ‘cusp of new beginning’ with Stormont return in 2000

Peter Mandelson on a visit to Omagh in January 2000. The former NI secretary of state held deep concern for the victims of the 1998 Omagh bomb, and helped secure them legal aid in their the successful civil case against the bombers

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Why Mandelson is a hero to Omagh bomb victims
“I went for dinner with Peter Mandelson – he’s blind to people of lower status”, was a headline in the Daily Telegraph this week.
Ruth Dudley Edwards

Lord Mandelson is not fit to be UK ambassador to the US. There is no doubt about his unwise association with Jeffrey Epstein

Letter: Ruth Dudley Edwards is wrong to defend Peter Mandelson

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (right) and British ambassador to the United States Lord Peter Mandelson during a welcome reception at the ambassador's residence in Washington, DC. Lord Peter Mandelson has been withdrawn as ambassador to the US after emails revealed the depth of his relationship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. Picture: Carl Court/PA Wire

Keir Starmer sacks Lord Mandelson as ambassador to US over Epstein friendship

Lord (Peter) Mandelson, seen with President Trump n the White House, has lost his job as UK ambassador to the US

Ruth Dudley Edwards: I believe Mandelson that he didn't know Epstein was a liar

Sean Neeson during a visit to Kilcreggan Urban Farm, Carrickfergus. Photo: National World

Former Alliance party leader was ‘passionate’ about his home town

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks on the phone to US President Donald Trump during a visit to the West Midlands. Photo: Alberto Pezzali/PA Wire

Historic UK-US trade deal announced - UUP warns it could harden Irish Sea border

Deputy First Minister Emma Little Pengelly with the UK's Ambassador to the United States, Lord Mandelson. Photo: DUP/PA Wire

Mandelson as US ambassador a huge opportunity for NI, says Little-Pengelly

There is a case for more resources but it would carry more credibility if universities made better use of the resources they already have at their disposal

Esmond Birnie: Call for expansion of student numbers deserves scrutiny

Peter Mandelson was advised to avoid referring to the Republic of Ireland as "The Free State" or "The Republican Government" when he became Northern Ireland Secretary in October 1999, newly declassified files have revealed

Mandelson was advised not to refer to Ireland as ‘The Free State’

The papers reveal concerns over maintaining rail network safety standards and a need to upgrade rolling stock

Declassified files: Suggestion raised over closing some parts of NI rail network

Sandra Chapman

Were we wrong to put our trust in Truss?

Letter to the editor

Latest collapse of Stormont just serves to show that 1998 Agreement has failed

Last week’s court ruling on the Omagh bomb shows why we should never give up

Ruth Dudley Edwards: So long after Omagh bomb, court ruling gives me hope

News Letter editorial

The Belfast City Council probe into the IRA Roselawn scandal must thoroughly exa...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson outside 10 Downing Street, London. He will be in Dublin today for Brexit talks. Photo: Victoria Jones/PA Wire

Boris Johnson in Dublin today to meet Leo Varadkar for talks about Brexit

Margaret Thatcher arrives at Tory headquarters in London after the general election victory of 1979

Sea-change in politics saw Margaret Thatcher swept into power in historic electi...

Alex Kane

Republicans can say what they want, I believe the IRA was a terrorist group

Daniel Hannan (speaking) and, left, Lord Mandelson

Photo: Matt Mackey / Press Eye

Hannan sees little risk of Scots quitting UK post-Brexit

At Fridays Manufacturing NI event: From left, Diane Dodds MEP, Dan Hannan MEP, Lord Mandelson, Thia Hennessy, Martina Anderson MEP, Dennis Kennedy. Â©Matt Mackey / Press Eye

Hannan: Vote Remain and kiss goodbye to any reforms

Sammy Wilson rejected Lord Mandelson's claims on jobs and the border

Mandelson EU exit claims '˜just plain nonsense'

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