From the fucker who financed the UK investment in the illegal Iraq invasion

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Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has told the BBC the situation facing Sir Keir Starmer was "serious" and suggested he may have been "too slow to do the right things" concerning Lord Mandelson.

The prime minister is under mounting pressure from Labour MPs over his decision to appoint Lord Mandelson as the UK's US ambassador in 2024 - despite Mandelson's relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein being a matter of public record at the time.

Brown said the appointment had been a "mistake", saying he had also made a mistake by bringing Lord Mandelson into his own cabinet in 2008.

But he told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme he backed Sir Keir as a "man of integrity" who had been "betrayed" by Lord Mandelson, adding the prime minister was the right man to "clean up the system".

Brown's remarks came as police concluded a search of two homes linked to Lord Mandelson, after email exchanges released in the latest Epstein files suggested he passed on market-sensitive government information to Epstein...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg1g83zvlyo