Lord Peter's name was one of those we tossed out there as someone we'd like to get under oath.*
From the BBC, September 11:
The Foreign Office says the decision was made "in light of additional information" from emails between the two men
They show that "the depth and extent of Peter Mandelson's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein is materially different from that known at the time of his appointment," the statement says - read it in full here
Starmer said on Wednesday "I have confidence in him", when pressed on Mandelson's appointment at PMQs
The question of what Starmer knew and when is not going away, writes the BBC's Henry Zeffman
In recent days, US lawmakers released a number of documents, including a letter from Mandelson in which he called the late convicted paedophile his "best pal" - he also said he believed further "embarrassing" correspondence would be published
Mandelson served as a key link between Starmer and Donald Trump during a crucial time for US-UK diplomacy...
....I think the Department of Justice should impanel a new "Epstein" grand jury.That's it, that's all I've got.
The predicate of course would be anything that Maxwell said over this past weekend.
I understand that some very powerful, very wealthy, very influential people might be opposed to this idea but it should be done.
So bring Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, Les Wexner, Ehud Barack And Reid Hoffman, a couple of Bronfmans, Alan Dershowitz, Mort Zuckerman, Leon Black, Peter Mandelson and Prince Andrew, Woody Allen, Bill Gates and Noam Chomsky, bring them before a grand jury and ask them what they know.It's all very private, the only people even aware of what is said in a grand jury are those in the courtroom so the reputational damage to the innocent is minimized and let's just get to the bottom of this.
