Keir Starmer: 'Had I known then what I know now, I’d have never appointed Mandelson'

The UK prime minister has spoken about sacking Peter Mandelson as US ambassador over the envoy’s close friendship with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Amid mounting questions about his political judgment, Starmer was asked why Lord Mandelson was appointed in the first place, given that the Labour peer’s friendship with Epstein had long been public knowledge