Confirmed: Starmer knew about Mandelson’s ‘Yum Yum’ Epstein messages when he defended him at PMQs

On Wednesday 10 September, Keir Starmer defended Peter Mandelson at PMQs and told MPs he had ‘confidence’ in him, after Starmer was grilled about revelations of Mandelson’s gushing and suspicious emails to now-dead serial child-rapist and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

The following day, Starmer removed Mandelson as UK ambassador to the US, though not from the government payroll.

Starmer knew about Mandelson’s ‘yum yum’

But new revelations have confirmed that Starmer was fully aware of the incriminating emails before he went out to bat for the ex-ambassador at PMQs. A Times investigation by has confirmed that:

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