Starmer under fire as Mandelson, Andrew and Epstein scandal explodes
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🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Amongst the three million files released by the US department of justice pertaining to the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein, two people in particular emerge badly: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Lord Mandelson.
Camilla and Tim reflect on the calls for Lord Mandelson to be stripped of his peerage following the revelations, including that he leaked confidential government documents to the disgraced financier. They also question why Keir Starmer ever appointed him as US ambassador.
Later, royal biographer Andrew Lownie assesses the damage to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, after pictures emerged of the former Duke of York on all fours over an unidentified woman.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:05.0 | Peter Mandelson says he resigned to save the Prime Minister embarrassment, but shouldn't Kirstama have sacked him? |
| 0:16.0 | And why on earth is he still in the House of Lords? |
| 0:19.0 | That extraordinary image of Andrew Mountbatten |
| 0:21.5 | Windsor on all fours and some vomit-inducing emails exchanged between Fergie and Geoffrey Epstein. We speak |
| 0:29.6 | to their biographer, Andrew Launy. Welcome to The Daily Tea with me Tim Stanley and me, |
| 0:35.0 | Camilla Tomony. |
| 0:53.5 | Tim, there's a brilliant visual representation that you're very fond of when it comes to the extent of the Epstein files. |
| 1:12.7 | The three million documents that have been released, if printed off and piled up on top of each other, would be akin to two Eiffel towers. Sacherbleu. Funny enough, the French come out of this fine. It's the British that are in trouble, isn't it? That's correct. So there's two central figures we're going to focus on in today's daily tea. One is Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. |
| 1:14.7 | We'll get onto him a little later. |
| 1:16.4 | And the other is the man, the dark lord, known as Peter Mandelson, who has had to fall on his |
| 1:23.6 | sword in recent hours. |
| 1:25.8 | And to be clear, this is not a question just of titill-tattle. |
| 1:29.3 | It is turning into a study of how power functions in Britain and America through access, |
| 1:37.3 | through getting access to people, being out to drop people's names, the relationships between |
| 1:41.3 | very powerful people. |
| 1:43.3 | And in so many cases, people who've |
| 1:45.0 | been linked to Epstein have tried to claim, I hardly knew this man. One suspects they've sat down |
| 1:50.3 | with their lawyer and gone through, when can it be proven I met them. But other than those |
| 1:53.8 | occasions, I hardly knew the man. But what the documents have done is demonstrate that they knew him |
| 1:58.6 | very, very well and had a very intimate relationship |
| 2:02.4 | with him that seems to have opened doors. |
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