Sir Keir Starmer "very quickly" made the decision to sack Lord Peter Mandelson after further information about "pretty awful emails" between him and Jeffrey Epstein came to light, a minister has said.Skills minister Baroness Jacqui Smith told Sky News: "When the Prime Minister realised from the additional information provided about the pretty awful emails between Peter Mandelson and Epstein, when the full details of those became available to the Prime Minister last Wednesday afternoon, he very q

Sir Keir Starmer "very quickly" made the decision to sack Lord Peter Mandelson after further information about "pretty awful emails" between him and Jeffrey Epstein came to light, a minister has said.Skills minister Baroness Jacqui Smith told Sky News: "When the Prime Minister realised from the additional information provided about the pretty awful emails between Peter Mandelson and Epstein, when the full details of those became available to the Prime Minister last Wednesday afternoon, he very quickly made the decision to remove Peter Mandelson as our ambassador."