Lord Mandelson resigns Labour membership over Epstein links
Lord Peter Mandelson said he has resigned his membership of the Labour Party to avoid causing it “further embarrassment” following further revelations about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
The peer, who was sacked as US ambassador last year because of his links to Epstein, featured in documents released by the US Department of Justice on Friday related to the paedophile financier.
Lord Mandelson said he had written on Sunday evening to Hollie Ridley, general secretary of the Labour Party to say he was stepping down from his party membership.
In his letter, he said: “I have been further linked this weekend to the understandable furore surrounding Jeffrey Epstein and I feel regretful and sorry about this.
“Allegations which I believe to be false that he made financial payments to me 20 years ago, and of which I have no record or recollection, need investigating by me.
“While doing this I do not wish to cause further embarrassment to the Labour Party and I am therefore stepping down from membership of the party.”
Lord Mandelson said: “I want to take this opportunity to repeat my apology to the women and girls whose voices should have been heard long before now.
“I have dedicated my life to the values and success of the Labour Party and in taking my decision, I believe I am acting in its best interests.”
Documents from the release appear to show Lord Mandelson suggesting to Epstein in 2009 that he would lobby the UK government over the matter of bankers’ bonuses.
Meanwhile, bank statements appear to show the peer received some 75,000 US dollars from Epstein over a period between 2003 and 2004, when he was a Labour MP.
Lord Mandelson said he did not recall ever receiving the payments, and questioned their authenticity.
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Never saw this coming……not (really had to be bad at picking people when stuff was out there!)
Come on Labour MP’s, your party is going down the drain to join reform and Tory. You know trump is in these files big time and you are allowing your leaders (McSweeny and Glassman) to lead you to destruction.
Mandelson’s ‘talents’ have been frequently lauded within Labour for over thirty years now, and yet his entire political career during that time has been studded with resignations prompted by serial embarrassments which he’s created for himself and his party – most of which seem to have been prompted by an apparent invincible fascination with money and with people who possess loads of it. You surely have to wonder whether such talent that he may have has been worth the embarrassments which he’s caused!
Mandelson and Mountbatten-Windsor should both testify about what they saw and heard while they were pals with Epstein. If they truly are sorry for hanging out with a sex trafficking demon then they should seek to make amends.
Always had him down as an incompetent moron and general waste of space, but wouldn’t have guessed he was a wrongun.
Still, I’m surprised Farage hasn’t appeared yet.
Farage has a few mentions in the Epstein files but so far he is the conduit for Bannon and Epstein to wreck the UK. Note girlfriend who bought his house….
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/dinner-with-mr-brexit-bannons-european-revolution-planned-with-farage-backed-by-epstein/
The fact that he resigned rather than being expelled tells you a lot about today’s Labour Party. Still, all he did was devote his career to doing favours for dodgy rich people. It would be different if he’d done something really bad, like failing to condemn someone who failed to condemn someone who once shared a platform with someone who once retweeted something by someone who once used the Z word on social media 15 years ago.
He’ll still ride off into sunset with a sizeable pension courtesy of UK taxpayers for his UK and EU positions he left.
Starmers judgement on this is pathetic.
He should testify and find a way to blow this thing wide open.