{"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\"> < 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&h=356&m=6&x=305&y=148&s=204&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 \u2018repeatedly\u2019 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 \u2018repeatedly\u2019&#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":["post-84551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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}]}}