Mandelson, Epstein & A £75K Exit Deal – What Was Starmer Thinking?
The Jon Gaunt Show
Jon Gaunt
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🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Mandelson, Epstein & A £75K Exit Deal – What Was Starmer Thinking?
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Tonight at 6pm Jon Gaunt goes LIVE on YouTube to dissect the latest revelations surrounding Peter Mandelson and the continuing fallout from the Epstein scandal.
The big question is simple: why on earth did Keir Starmer appoint Mandelson as UK Ambassador to the United States when the warning signs were already flashing red? Mandelson's past links to Jeffrey Epstein were hardly a secret. We already knew he had maintained contact with Epstein even after Epstein had been convicted, something that should have set alarm bells ringing in any Prime Minister's office.
Yet despite those risks, Starmer pushed ahead with the appointment anyway.
Now the story gets even murkier. When Mandelson was eventually removed from the role, He reportedly demanded a staggering £547,000 payout. In the end he walked away with £75,000 – not a bad result for a controversy that should arguably never have happened in the first place. Nice work if you can get it.
For Jon Gaunt, this whole sorry saga speaks to a much bigger problem: Keir Starmer's chronic lack of judgement. If a Prime Minister cannot properly assess the reputational risks of appointing someone with such well-known associations, what does that say about their ability to lead the country?
Tonight Jon asks the tough questions the establishment would rather avoid. 🔥 Was Mandelson ever the right choice? 🔥 Why were the warnings ignored? 🔥 And does this scandal show that Starmer simply isn't fit to be Prime Minister?
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. |
| 0:02.0 | Welcome to the John Gorn podcast. |
| 0:04.4 | I am John Gawnt, and tonight we're talking Peter Mandelson, Epstein, Stama, |
| 0:11.1 | and the fact that Mandelson wanted three quarters of a million pounds as a payoff |
| 0:16.2 | for being sacked as our corrupt ambassador to the United States of America, |
| 0:21.7 | but he still ended up with 75 grand. |
| 0:24.5 | 75 grand of your and my money. |
| 0:28.9 | Mandelson shouldn't have got 75p, let alone 75 grand. |
| 0:34.6 | He's a disgrace, he's corrupt. |
| 0:40.9 | He was telling people our secrets effectively. |
| 0:49.6 | And Stama was warned, absolutely warned. And it's proved today in the release of these Epstein documents. He knew that Mandelson was still seeing the paedophile, Jeffrey Epstein, but he still |
| 0:57.6 | made him against the advice of almost everybody. He made him the most important ambassador for |
| 1:04.7 | our great country. I think this brings into question not only Stama's judgment, but about whether he should still have the job. |
| 1:14.7 | And the coward, he wouldn't even be in Parliament to answer questions today. |
| 1:20.1 | He didn't release this information till after Prime Minister's questions. |
| 1:25.9 | That's taking the piss. |
| 1:28.6 | That is him gerrymandering the situation to make himself look good. |
| 1:34.2 | If you're not raging about this, you must be in a coma or dead. |
| 1:39.2 | Let's have your comments. |
| 1:40.8 | Plenty to talk about tonight. |
| 1:43.8 | So, good evening and welcome to John Gorn TV. |
| 1:47.9 | Please share the link. |
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