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Jill Lawless

The Times of Israel

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Files show UK’s Starmer was warned of ‘reputational risk’ to Epstein-linked US envoy

Files show UK’s Starmer was warned of ‘reputational risk’ to Epstein-linked US envoy

British prime minister received document in 2024, before appointing Peter Mandelson as Washington ambassador, in which officials worried about his...

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Jill Lawless

War with Iran strains the US-UK ‘special relationship’ as Starmer and Trump disagree

War with Iran strains the US-UK ‘special relationship’ as Starmer and Trump disagree

Relationship ‘obviously not what it was,’ Trump says, after British PM gave US limited access to UK bases, implicitly rebuked Washington’s...

03.03.2026 40

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Tremors from the Epstein files rattle age-old foundations of Britain's House of Lords

Fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein files has landed on the gilded wood and plush red benches of Britain’s House of Lords. Parliament’s upper chamber...

20.02.2026 30

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UK leader Starmer fights for his job as ex-ambassador’s Epstein links spark crisis

PM to address his Labour Party’s lawmakers behind closed doors amid scandal over his selection of envoy Peter Mandelson, who had ties to...

09.02.2026 20

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Jill Lawless

UK to release files related to Mandelson’s appointment as US envoy amid Epstein fallout

PM Starmer vows to ‘make sure that all of the material is published,’ says Mandelson ‘betrayed our country, our Parliament and my...

04.02.2026 50

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Jill Lawless

UK government, public and Giuffre family welcome Andrew’s fall from royal status

Praise for King Charles’s decision to strip brother of princely title, but family of Epstein trafficking victim, who died by suicide, says he...

01.11.2025 60

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Tony Blair’s long experience in Middle East is both his strength and his weakness

Former UK prime minister, tapped to play key role in postwar Gaza administration under Trump’s ceasefire plan, was a peace envoy for nearly a...

30.09.2025 20

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Jill Lawless

UK marks 20 years since the deadly al-Qaeda 7/7 London bombings

King Charles III, Prime Minister Starmer lead remembrance of victims of suicide attacks that killed 52; at subway stations near sites, staff,...

07.07.2025 30

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Jill Lawless