This is The Guardian.

If I knew then, what I know now, he would never have been anywhere near government.

It's a kind of a moral misjudgment as much as it is

a sort of a political misjudgment and that's why it's a really difficult thing for them to carry.

It feels like it opens a window on the kinds of contact that's possible between very rich people

and very influential people and ministers. It doesn't feel like Mandelson is the powerful person

here. It feels like Epstein is. The political scandal surrounding

the Labour Grandee Peter Mandelson and his relationship with pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein

deepens with pressure now right at the heart of Kirstama's government. From the Guardians

today in focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Haugh. I'm joined by Archie Bland, the Guardian's

head of national news. Thanks so much for being with us in the studio, Archie. So, I mean,

the scandal surrounding Lord Peter Mandelson is building a political scandal, but also a corruption

scandal.

We knew some detail of the relationship between Mandelson and the disgraced, pedophile, financier,

Jeffrey Epstein, but there is now new information, new photographs, new evidence of

financial transactions between them, and crucially, the alleged sharing of confidential Downing Street information

and market sensitive information from Mandelson to Epstein. Tell me what we know. So we've really

developed a more complete picture of the nature of their relationship, I would say, since the release

of the latest tranche of the Epstein files on, I would say, since the release of the

latest tranche of the Epstein files on Friday. And it's worth remembering that this is just

one sliver of a much wider scandal that is fundamentally related to the sexual abuse of

women and girls. But within the specific UK context, what they appear to show is Peter Mandelson being in contact

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