{"id":86272,"date":"2026-03-11T22:14:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T22:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=86272"},"modified":"2026-03-11T22:14:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T22:14:31","slug":"starmer-ignored-top-aides-warnings-over-mandelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/11\/starmer-ignored-top-aides-warnings-over-mandelson\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer ignored top aides\u2019 warnings over Mandelson"},"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\/AA1Yp0TR.img?w=534&amp;h=334&amp;m=6&amp;x=280&amp;y=106&amp;s=473&amp;d=171\" alt=\"Lord Mandelson with Sir Keir Starmer last year when the former was British ambassador to the US - Carl Court\/Getty\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sir Keir Starmer ignored warnings from top aides about Lord Mandelson\u2019s close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein before appointing him as Britain\u2019s ambassador <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/starmer-ignored-top-aides-warnings-over-mandelson\/ar-AA1YlKA6?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69b1e50382054e138dd3b4a259e42ebd&amp;ei=53\">Read More<\/a><\/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>Sir Keir Starmer ignored warnings from top aides about Lord Mandelson\u2019s close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein before appointing him as Britain\u2019s ambassador&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86272","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\/2026\/03\/Mandelson-and-Stammer.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86272","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=86272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86274,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86272\/revisions\/86274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}