Starmer loses control of Mandelson document release

Keir Starmer has lost control of which documents are made public relating to his appointment of Peter Mandelson as his senior adviser and UK ambassador to the US.

Starmer had indicated he would decide which information was released and keep some back for “national security and international relations”. This was barely-disguised shorthand for withholding information concerning Israel. Serial child rapist Jeffrey Epstein is now known to have been an Israeli intelligence asset. Mandelson, whose closeness to Epstein has been further exposed but was known by Starmer when he appointed him, is also a Zionist.

But the parliamentary ‘Intelligence and Security Committee’ (ISC), made up of peers and MPs, has now said that it will hold sole control over what files are released. Of course, Starmer will still try to influence decisions and his home secretary Shabana Mahmood, to whom police forces report, will have more influence than she should.

Mandelson documents

Number 10 has already said that the Met has agreed some documents should not be disclosed, including reports of three questions Starmer asked Mandelson about Epstein. Parliamentarians on the ISC may also have an eye on potential political or future legal consequences for themselves if they withhold material information, but Starmer’s handlers are evidently still trying to minimise damage.

The Met Police and the Starmer regime have also stipulated a supposed ‘framework’ for agreeing which documents can be made public without prejudicing its criminal investigation into Mandelson, who was arrested on 23 February 2026. Commons speaker Lindsay Hoyle had told police that Mandelson was planning to flee the country.

Mandelson’s protégé Morgan McSweeney resigned as Starmer’s chief of staff two weeks earlier in an attempt to save his boss. Since then, Starmer has tried to portray himself as shocked, but has tried to hide behind police process to avoid confessing what he knew about Mandelson and Epstein when he appointed him — which seems certain to be more or less everything.

Documents are likely to start coming out as early as next week.

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