The fall and rise (and fall again) of Peter Mandelson

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He whitethorn person described himself arsenic a "fighter not a quitter", but adjacent Peter Mandelson couldn't past caller and lurid revelations astir his narration with convicted paedophile, Jeffrey Epstein.

The eventual governmental animal, Lord Mandelson was nary alien to ungraded - having doubly been forced to resign from Tony Blair's cabinet. But brought backmost into the Labour fold by Gordon Brown aft a palmy stint arsenic European commissioner, the erstwhile rotation doc went connected to bask a vocation renaissance - which yet took him to Washington arsenic the UK's ambassador to the United States.

However, Lord Mandelson was summoned location from DC successful disgrace, pursuing the work of a cache of embarrassing emails and different communications betwixt himself and Epstein.

Was his downfall inevitable? And should Sir Keir Starmer person known amended than to entrust 1 of the UK's biggest diplomatic roles to a antheral with a way grounds of self-destruction?

Niall Paterson is joined by erstwhile ambassador and nationalist information advisor Lord Ricketts, and Sky News' erstwhile governmental exertion Adam Boulton.