Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is considering Lord Peter Mandelson as Ambassador to the United States. The Labour member of the House of Lords had to resign in disgrace from Tony Blair‘s government twice, only to be appointed to the European Commission, the unelected executive of the European Union (EU). Mandelson was plagued by scandals there, too, but was soon slotted into the government of Blair’s successor, Gordon Brown.
Sources say Sir Keir is waiting until after the U.S. election to finalize the decision. Lord Mandelson, who was “particularly close” to pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, is expected to be the leading candidate if Kamala Harris enters the White House. A Whitehall insider claims Mandelson is “a person of political weight and substance. He knows power, he understands money, and he has no problem whatsoever rubbing shoulders with the one percent,” and made a “credible pitch” for the job.
David Miliband, Brown’s Foreign Secretary (Secretary of State) and a junior minister under Blair is another candidate for the ambassadorship. The former Labour Member of Parliament (MP) exited electoral politics after failing to replace Brown as Labour leader after the party lost power in 2010.
Miliband currently lives in New York, working for a George Soros-funded nonprofit abetting illegal immigration into the U.S.