A former Labour grandee has been accused of passing sensitive information to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein during her tenure as business secretary. He denies any wrongdoing. Lord Mandelson’s lawyers said he was arrested despite voluntarily agreeing to talk to police because someone told the Met he was planning to flee the country. In a statement…
Andrew Bailey, the Governor of the Bank of England, is not accustomed to emotional outbursts or direct criticism. Being measured in your public comments is part of the job description of running a central bank, and Mr Bailey has been at it since succeeding Mark Carney in 2020. (To understand the odds of the job, consider…
Happy days for Peter Mandelson and Keir Starmer, before the former’s latest fall from grace (Image: PA) Just when you thought Labor couldn’t get any more nasty, allegations emerged that Peter Mandelson – Sir Keir Starmer’s now-sacked US ambassador – passed confidential government information to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein in 2009, when he was business…
