Sir Keir Starmer has sacked Peter Mandelson as UK ambassador to the US.

He was named Sir Keir’s ambassador to the US in December ahead of Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

Questions had been raised about his links to disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein in recent years.

But new revelations that he had supported Epstein while he was being investigated for sexual offences prompted calls from both Tory opposition leader Kemi Badenoch and some Labour MPs for him to be sacked.

BREAKING: Peter Mandelson........

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