The extraordinary revelations appear to lay bare the extent of the professional and personal relationship between the paedophile financier and the ex-Labour minister

Former UK business secretary used talking points in conversations with US official about financial crisis measures

Peter Mandelson has been married to his longtime partner, Reinaldo Avila da Silva, since 2023. A new tranche of Epstein files unveiled Avila da Silva's email exchange with Jeffrey Epstein, in which he asked the financier for a loan of thousands of pounds.

It would be a brave journalist who today would dare write a column in defence of Peter Mandelson. But then, as a close friend once said of me during my parliamentary career, “Tom likes to walk towards the sound of gunfire”.

The Prime Minister is facing fresh pressure to disclose whether the disgraced peer was handed a severance payment following his dismissal as a senior diplomat.

He has also tasked officials with drafting legislation that will allow the former ambassador’s peerage to be removed.

There are growing calls for Lord Mandelson's peerage to be revoked, after further revelations about his ties to convicted paedophile, Jeffrey Epstein.

Former UK Labour minister wrote ‘pressure needs to be maintained’ against Australian Labor’s proposed tax in email sent two weeks before Rudd was replaced as PM