Britain’s Ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson speaks during a reception at the ambassador’s residence in February. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Wednesday that he has “confidence” in the country’s ambassador to the United States, who faces mounting criticism of his links to the convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein took his own life in prison in August 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, more than a decade after his conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor. A skilled political operator, Mandelson is no stranger to controversy, having twice resigned from former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government in 1998 and 2001. Advertisement“I have no doubt at all that there’s a lot of traffic, correspondence, exchanges between us, absolutely,” he said.
