Peter Mandelson asked Foreign Office for £500k severance payment, files show
Former peer sacked as US ambassador over links to Jeffrey Epstein was offered £75,000, documents released by Cabinet Office showUK politics live – latest updatesPeter Mandelson was offered a severance payment of £75,000 – having initially asked the Foreign Office to pay him more than...
<p>Former peer sacked as US ambassador over links to Jeffrey Epstein was offered £75,000, documents released by Cabinet Office show</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/mar/11/peter-mandelson-documents-keir-starmer-pmqs-iran-latest-news-updates">UK politics live – latest updates</a></p></li></ul><p>Peter Mandelson was offered a severance payment of £75,000 – having initially asked the Foreign Office to pay him more than £500,000 upon his sacking as US ambassador, newly released documents reveal.</p><p>Exchanges in the documents released by the Cabinet Office suggested that officials did “well to get this settlement down this low with minimal fuss”, after Mandelson was forced to resign as ambassador to the US because of newly disclosed details about his long friendship with the disgraced financier Jeffery Epstein.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/11/peter-mandelson-asked-foreign-office-for-500k-severance-payment-files-show">Continue reading...</a>
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