SIR Keir Starmer’s continued support of Peter Mandelson despite fresh evidence of his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein was today blasted as a “disgrace”.
The PM insisted he retained full confidence in his embattled US ambassador amid mounting calls for him to be sacked.
Sir Keir Starmer gave his full support to under-fire Peter Mandelson today
Peter Mandelson has confessed to carrying on his friendship with Epstein for ‘far too long’
Peter Mandelson said he had massive regrets on Harry Cole Saves The West
Correspondence released by Congress shows Lord Mandelson calling the late paedophile financier his “best pal”.
Breaking , the former Labour Cabinet Minister expressed his “deep regret” of his relationship with Epstein.
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And he admitted that more “embarrassing” details of their friendship would likely emerge in the coming weeks.
Despite this, Sir Keir stuck by his man in Washington when grilled in a fiery PMQs session today.
He said: “The ambassador has repeatedly expressed regret at his association with him – he is right to do so. I have full confidence in him.”
It prompted fury from Tory leader Kemi Badenoch, who said: “It is embarrassing that the Prime Minister still has confidence in a man that was brokering deals with a convicted paedophile. It is a disgrace.”
In his bombshell interview today, Lord Mandelson confessed to carrying on his friendship with sex monster Epstein “for far longer than I should have done”.
branded it an “albatross around his neck” as he pleaded his “deep regret” at remaining in even after he was convicted for underage sex crimes in 2008.
Remarkably he suggested that because he is gay he may have seen a different side to the predator who died in a jail in 2019 under a cloud of sex trafficking allegations involving teenage girls.
Under fire Lord Mandelson made his startling apology to last night where he admitted more embarrassing revelations were to come.
The full show will be aired on YouTube tonight at 7pm as critics called on PM Sir to jettison his top ally from the vital role as Downing Street’s bridge to and the .
The bombshell interview came after the UK’s most senior diplomat in America was revealed to have sent the late banker a gushing 10 page letter in 2003 where he declared his love for his “best pal”.
Speaking exclusively to , the grandee insisted: “I feel a tremendous sense, a profound sense of sympathy for those people, those women, who suffer as a result of his behaviour and his .
“And secondly, I regret very, very deeply indeed, carrying on that association with him for far longer than I should have done,” he added.
Mandelson pictured here with Donald Trump in the Oval Office Credit: Getty 
