Mandelson should no longer be a peer, says Starmer

Released emails show the then business secretary shared confidential UK tax plans with Jeffrey Epstein in 2009UK politics live – latest updatesKeir Starmer has demanded Peter Mandelson resign from the House of Lords and urged the upper chamber to modernise its disciplinary procedures to allow peers to be stripped of their titles.The cabinet secretary, the UK’s most senior civil servant, will also investigate Mandelson’s actions as business secretary when Labour was last in power, after emails to Jeffrey Epstein about highly sensitive government policy emerged. Continue reading...