How the Epstein scandal has shaken the British government to its core
Anger at former US ambassador Peter Mandelson’s relations with the child sex offender threatens to topple the prime ministerIt was the one scandal that Donald Trump seemed unable to shake. No matter his best efforts to convince his supporter base that there was nothing to see here, the demands...
<p>Anger at former US ambassador Peter Mandelson’s relations with the child sex offender threatens to topple the prime minister</p><p></p><p>It was the one scandal that Donald Trump seemed unable to shake. No matter his best efforts to convince his supporter base that there was nothing to see here, the demands for the administration to release every document it had on the child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein only grew.</p><p>Yet even after <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/new-jeffrey-epstein-files-key-takeaways">the most shocking revelations</a> in the latest drop about Trump’s inner circle – involving everyone from Elon Musk to the Maga honcho Steve Bannon to the commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, not to mention Trump himself – so far, it seems, the administration has escaped largely unscathed. Nobody has resigned, nobody has been fired, and certainly there is no sign that the US president is going anywhere.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/05/how-epstein-scandal-shaken-british-government-peter-mandelson">Continue reading...</a>
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