UK’s new US ambassador says journalists asking about Jeffrey Epstein can ‘f*** off’

The UK’s caller ambassador to the US has said reporters asking astir his alleged links to convicted enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein ‘can each f*** off’.

Lord Peter Mandelson, erstwhile a salient fig successful the New Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, was picked for the station by Sir Keir Starmer earlier Christmas.

He landed successful Washington DC yesterday to statesman his role, taking implicit from his fashionable predecessor Dame Karen Pierce.

But since his assignment successful December, questions person been circling astir his reported relationship with the disgraced financier, who died successful 2019.

An interior study from the JP Morgan bank, filed to a New York tribunal successful 2023, said Epstein seemed to ‘maintain a peculiarly adjacent narration with Prince Andrew the Duke of York and Lord Peter Mandelson, a elder subordinate of the British government’.

The incoming ambassador was asked astir those links by the Financial Times arsenic portion of a lengthy interview.

Lord Mandelson said: ‘I regret ever gathering him oregon being introduced to him by his spouse Ghislaine Maxwell. I regret adjacent much the wounded helium caused to galore young women.’

He past added: ‘I’m not going to spell into this. It’s an FT [Financial Times] obsession and frankly you tin each fuck off. OK?’

The Labour grandee arrives successful Washington astatine a testy clip for the peculiar narration betwixt the UK and US.

Returning President Donald Trump has slapped tariffs connected respective of his country’s closest allies, and warned precocious the UK is ‘way retired of line’ portion adding: ‘I deliberation that 1 tin beryllium worked out.’

One of his closest advisors, billionaire Elon Musk, has been acold much nonstop successful scathing disapproval of Keir Starmer’s authorities and antecedently suggested it should beryllium overthrown.

Lord Mandelson told the Financial Times helium was ‘intrigued’ by Musk, describing him arsenic a ‘fascinating individual’ who has an ‘inaccurate representation of Britain’.

He has antecedently offered a harsh appraisal of Trump, who helium called a ‘white nationalist’, a ‘danger to the world’ and a ‘bully’ during his archetypal word successful office.

But that code has present changed, and helium offered an apology for his words successful an quality connected Fox News past week.

The 71-year-old said: ‘I see my remarks astir President Trump arsenic ill-judged and wrong.

‘I deliberation times and attitudes towards the president person changed since then.’

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