Directly responsible for shredding public trust in politicians
LAURA PERRINS
People have been sent to The Tower for a lot less than what Peter Mandelson has done. The scandal engulfing Peter Mandelson threatens to take down the Labour government of Sir Keir Starmer.
Peter Mandelson. Architect of New Labour. Mandy, then Lord Mandelson. Enemy of the Conservative party and deadly foe of the left of the Labour party. He was also known as the Prince of Darkness, master of spin. Mandelson dominated British politics and resigned not once but twice from the New Labour government. He was brought back to life and appointed to the coveted Ambassadorship to the United States by Starmer, over serious objections from the security services. This scandal is at least as bad as the Profumo affair and the Thorpe Affair.
That biography again: “Peter Mandelson was UK Ambassador to the United States of America from 10 February 2025 to 11 September 2025.
He held a range of senior positions in government under Prime Minister Tony Blair and later Gordon Brown. He was First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills from 2008 to 2010. He was Secretary of State for Business and Trade (1998) and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1999 to 2001).
Mandelson was appointed to the House of Lords as a life peer in 2008. He was European Commissioner for Trade from 2004 to 2008. He was Member of Parliament for Hartlepool from 1992 to 2004. And Mandelson is co-founder of Global Counsel, a global public policy advisory firm.
From 1985 to 1990, Mandelson was the Labour Party’s Director of Campaigns and Communications.” He certainly was.
Mandelson was also a very close friend of ‘financier’ and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. By close friend, it has been revealed that Mandelson directly briefed Epstein highly sensitive market information during the bank crisis, in effect acting against the British state he was appointed to serve. Oh, and still not talked about much, he was the architect of the entire New Labour open border immigration disaster.
Tony Blair, Peter Mandelson and the man who pulled the media strings for them Alastair Campbell are the three horsemen of the British political and cultural apocalypse. They were all directly responsible for shredding public trust in politicians and institutions due to the Iraq war, the open border immigration policy and relentless media spin and communication that sold this entire shitshow to the British public. It was shock and awe all right.
Blair and Campbell of course have not been named in any way in relation to the Epstein affair. I criticise only their record in government.
But Mandelson was ‘a close associate’ acting on Epstein’s behalf against his own government. He is one of the worst traitors in British history. Mandelson’s name appears 5,938 times in 3.5 million in the Epstein documents.
Keeping it simple, we now know that Mandelson worked directly against the interests of the British state during the financial crash.
The banks had to be bailed out and were getting nervous about continued lending. There were then discussions in the Treasury about selling off assets. In other words they had to start looking to sell off the family silver (State held public assets worth £20billion) to “relieve the debt burden, reduce borrowing costs and provide some funds for new investment.”
Mandelson forwarded these confidential Downing Street briefings (that were sent directly to Gordon Brown during the financial crisis) to Epstein. Mandelson told Epstein that public assets might come up for sale which is highly sensitive market information. This has triggered a police investigation.
Not only that but Mandelson also attempted to kill a proposed bankers tax by the then-Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling. Nick Cohen explains in The Spectator.
Darling’s “modest proposal was that bonuses of more than £25,000 would attract a 50 per cent tax rate. As Darling was doing this, Mandelson was working against him with his friend and benefactor, the sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Through Mandelson, Epstein organised a campaign from New York to undermine the Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer in London.”
Mandelson flagged the potential bankers tax to both Epstein and JP Morgan Chase, America’s largest bank. In December 2009 an email from Mandelson tells Epstein that Jamie Dimon, the boss of JP Morgan, should “mildly threaten” Alistair Darling, the chancellor, over a tax on bankers’ bonuses.
Darling, who died in 2023, wrote in his biography that Dimon called him a few days later. “Mr Dimon was angry, very angry,” Darling said. “He said that his bank bought a lot of UK debt and he wondered if that was now such a good idea. He went on to say that they were thinking of building a new office in London but they had to reconsider that now.” This was when Mandelson was “First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.” So that’s the Secretary of State for Business calling up Epstein in the US and encouraging him to get the boss of JP Morgan to threaten the Chancellor should he impose a bankers tax.
Mandelson was also a chief architect of New Labour’s open border immigration policy which seriously undermined social cohesion in the UK.
Between 1997 and 2010, more than 2.2 million immigrants came to the UK – more than twice the population of Birmingham – with the annual net figure quadrupling during Labour’s time in office.
In 2013 at gathering of the Labour think-tank “Progress” Lord Mandelson admitted “in 2004 when as a Labour government, we were not only welcoming people to come into this country to work, we were sending out search parties for people and encouraging them, in some cases, to take up work in this country.” Sending out search parties they were.
Tony Blair, Peter Mandelson and Alistair Campbell were the architects of the entire globalist open border agenda in Britain. They were there to shake the place up. Under the new regime, things could only get better. This was the future that everybody was supposed to get on board with until it blew up in the banker’s crisis. Over the years as the usually mild-mannered British witnessed their country be fundamentally transformed, they became more alarmed at the rate of immigration. They were called fascist and racist for their troubles.
It is also worth asking how Mandelson was appointed ambassador to the United States despite previous resignations. This was in the face of serious concerns in the Labour party and the security services themselves. He was never subject to serious scrutiny because the legacy media did not hold him to account. Sky journalist Sophie Ridge admitted this on Twitter. She pointed out that there was a huge overlap between the media and politicians at Westminster. Yet when smaller non-legacy media outlets point this out, they are dismissed as peddling conspiracy theories or worse.
If twenty years ago somebody said that Jeffrey Epstein millionaire financier was a sex offender and trafficked women for powerful men, had links to then HRH Prince Andrew, the Duke of York they would have been dismissed as another wild conspiracy theorist. If it was then revealed that he was receiving inside information directly from the British government as they tried to salvage what was left of their exploding economy, you would think it was a script for a very badly written Netflix drama.
All of this however has come to light. Little was revealed by the mainstream media. Instead, it was revealed by a paper dump by the Americans. There is a very real chance the Mandelson scandal will take down the Starmer government. It should take down all of his destructive policies with him.
This article (Peter Mandelson, Prince of Darkness) was created and published by Laura Perrins and is republished here under “Fair Use”
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We should bring shame back to politics.
The public deserves a say in what happens next.
SEAN WALSH
The Mandelson Affair has become the Starmer Affair. The Prime Minister’s shoddy attempts at diversion and blame-shifting have situated him at the centre of the scandal. And boy what a scandal. An admixture of money, insider trading and sex supplemented by systematic child trafficking (fine in Rotherham, verboten in the Virgin Islands, apparently).
This is Court of Caligula level stuff.
Starmer’s defence, as of yesterday, is that Peter Mandelson lied to him over the depth and length of his friendship with the (arguably) late Jeffrey Epstein. And that the security services failed in their duty of due diligence when it came to the developed vetting procedure. Quite brave that. The spooks, being the spooks, have no orthodox right of reply, but they have the tradecraft to make their own point, in their own way, and in their own time.
Who knows what his excuse will be this morning? Perhaps the internet will have crashed that day, or Google was down.
Of course Mandelson lied. That’s what he does, and is therefore what you must expect him to do. The (let’s take them in sequence) sacked former Minister without Portfolio, disgraced former Northern Ireland Secretary, feather-bedding former EU Trade Commissioner, briefly tenured former Business Secretary and now sacked-again former Ambassador to Washington has had an uneven career threaded through with casual, routine, habitual and taken-for-granted Pavlovian dishonesty.
I suppose you could say that Starmer has a right to be angry at being lied to because that is, after all, his job. So, having been lied to himself he’s reasserting his dominance here by now lying to the rest of us in saying that Mandelson was so persuasive in his reassurances that he was quite taken in and that, contrary to myth, you can bullshit a bullshitter. This is the charitable interpretation, but it’s really too contrived to be taken seriously.
Now the lemming media are again telling us that this is not survivable, that the PM is a “dead man walking” and that he will be forced out immediately within a week after the upcoming by-election following the May elections within a year eventually.
This is all actually worse than the Profumo affair, and not just because in this case there are genuine issues of national security and financial malfeasance. These are, in the end, empirical harms and candidates for legal remedy. But there are spiritual and cultural reasons why this very contemporary scandal is so singularly depressing.
Profumo resigned in shame and as a result was able to transform himself over time via unreported and non-performative works of charity. Over several decades the political class has, with our acquiescence if not complicity, instituted a post-shame political culture. Shame is dead and the opportunities it supplied for personal metanoia seem to have died with it.
Actually that is probably too strong. It might be just that the capacity of our political class to feel shame has gone. We know that shame is still a thing because this scandal, and UK politics in general, has shamed us all in the eyes of the rest of the world.
For that reason if Starmer fails to shamelessly brazen it out (and he still might survive this) then there should be no question of an “interim” prime minister, or leadership contests. The game of swapping out one disgraced politician for another has become tiresome. The transgressions here are of such magnitude that the British people need our say in what happens next. It’s quite possible, as many are saying, that whoever follows Starmer will be worse but it doesn’t follow that he must stay, although it does perhaps follow that this government must fall with him.
But, as many are also saying, the “herd is yet to move” as his equally-execrable-in-their-own-way would-be successors search for a sticking place. A horrible stasis. Like the final scene in Reservoir Dogs. Or, for the more comedic take, The Italian Job.
This article (We should bring shame back to politics) was created and published by Sean Walsh and is republished here under “Fair Use”
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