{"id":84551,"date":"2026-02-04T21:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84551"},"modified":"2026-02-04T21:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:26:12","slug":"uks-starmer-says-mandelson-repeatedly-lied-about-epstein-regrets-appointing-him-as-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/04\/uks-starmer-says-mandelson-repeatedly-lied-about-epstein-regrets-appointing-him-as-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s Starmer says Mandelson &#8216;repeatedly lied&#8217; about Epstein, regrets appointing him as ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1VEa5M.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6&amp;x=305&amp;y=148&amp;s=204&amp;d=204\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: British Ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson walks on the day British Prime Minister Keir Starmer holds an emergency Cobra meeting to discuss Israel-Iran conflict, in London, Britain, June 18, 2025. REUTERS\/Jaimi Joy\/File Photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Wednesday he regretted appointing Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States, saying he &#8216;repeatedly&#8217; lied and misrepresented his ties to the late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Wednesday he regretted appointing Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States, saying he &#8216;repeatedly&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Peter-Mandelson.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84553,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84551\/revisions\/84553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}