Michael Holden
London (Reuters) is Peter Mandelson, one of the biggest and most prominent figures in Britain’s politics for 30 years, twice retreating from the scandals that forced him from the government, finally terminating his close relationship with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epein.
Hired as a British biggest diplomat in Washington less than nine months ago for his smooth -speaking skills, which Prime Minister Keir Starmer hoped to win Donald Trump’s administration, Mandelson was dismissed on Thursday. The letters he sent to Epstein, revealing the depth of their relationship.
“I think your world and I feel hopeless and frantic about what happened,” E -mail Epsein emails in letters In the letters, Mandelson said before he found guilty of prostitution of minors.
“Your friends stay with you and love you,” he said email. In letters seen by British media.
A capable of blowing scandals that others could not seem to be, even he could not avoid the meaning of Epstein’s revelations.
“Former Labor Parliament (Member of Parliament), Spin Doctor and Darkness Prince has previously resigned twice due to political scandals, but his Jeffrey Eptein references are the last straw,” the Times newspaper said X.
Mandelson helped the Blair to clean it in power
In the 1990s, the 71 -year -old Mandelson became the main player for the first time because he helped restore the reliability of the Labor Party and then helped his close friend Tony Blair Swape in 1997.
He was also the driving force of the London Millennium dome – a very malignant and hidden tourist attraction built over £ 750 million ($ 1.02 billion) to mark the turn of the century and now the O2 concert arena.
For his supporters, he was a master of strategy with unmatched delivery skills. However, his ruthless print and silky behind -the -scenes behavior with snacks provoked fear, mistrust and hostility, even from the work layers.
1998 He retired from the position of Minister of Trade of Loan received from a fellow minister to buy a house in the trendy area of Western London, referring to a conflict of interest.
Less than 10 months later, he returned to the government at one of the fastest coming in modern British political history. This time, the Secretary of Northern Ireland oversees the material implementation of the peace agreement.
However, his second show only lasted until 2001. This time, when it was translated again, this time due to alleged participation in the passport scandal, which was attended by Indian billionaire Hindus brothers who agreed to help finance the Millennium Dome project, although it was later improperly removed.
He hasn’t been out of front policy for a long time.
2004 His friend Blair turned into his charm and skills to be a British European Commissioner for trade to help a smooth relationship that Britain’s involvement in the last year’s invasion of Iraq.
He went to this work for four years, before he was given a violation of life and in 2008. He made Lord Mandelson before returning to the Government as a Business Minister, the role he played until he lost two years later.
Although he was afraid and disliked by some of the workforce, his definite diplomatic skills and trade experience encouraged Starmer to appoint him as UK Ambassador to Washington, the first political appointment to the role for almost half a century.
Righteously rich and powerful
“Some around Mr Trump see me when they see many in Europe. They see me as a progressive left-wing, a man who can even be anti-business or something that can follow the liberalism they just won in America,” Mandelson told the Financial Times.
“What they will discover, I’m not uber-laiberal, I’m not a promising-to-person, I’m a market and business.”
However, in terms of the majority of his career, the court of his rich and famous rights had to cause his collapse.
The questions about his closeness to the epistein after the financier’s belief were raised and asked about his links to FT, he gave a blurry answer.
“I am sorry that I have ever met or I was introduced to his partner Ghislaine Maxwell. I am even more regretted by the injury he has caused to many young women,” he told February.
“I’m not going to get involved. It is FT obsessed and, frankly, you can all get rid of it. Okay?”
But this week, revelations, such as describing Epstein’s beliefs as “illegal”, have proven that this is not good.
“I am very sorry that I fell than his lies, that he fell, and I accepted guarantees that he gave me about his indictment,” Mandelson said Wednesday.
“Looking at the butt, after many years of new information, we realized that we were mistaken to believe in it … I really regret that I was very sorry since his death, I felt like Albatross around the neck.” (1 USD = 0.7387 pounds) (this story was replaced to “clearly” replaced by “cleaned” in paragraph 12, and in paragraph 13, the repeated word “long”)).
(Michael Holden Reports Edited by Elizabeth Piper and William Maclean)