Nish Kumar

Look, it's hard to overstate the importance of the newest revelations from the Epstein files.

We've got a Secretary of State leaking confidential market-sensitive government information to a convicted sex offender who apparently used it for financial gain and influence.

It's now a police investigation.

There's growing pressure on key figures to give evidence in the US and more and more questions about our prime minister's judgment.

Keir Starmer told the cabinet that he was gobsmacked by the appalling revelations.

And here's what he said today about what we've heard so far.

Even when he first appeared in the notorious Epstein files, he was able to explain and excuse his links to a convicted sex offender.

Here he is speaking to the BBC's Laura Koonsberg after he was first sacked as US ambassador.

Not everyone was convinced, but now following the release of more emails from the files, the picture looks even more damning than they could have assumed.

He's previously denied any wrongdoing.

But it doesn't stop there.

The European Commission said on Tuesday that it would investigate Mandelson's time as the European Trade Commissioner between 2004 and 2008.

He's also resigned from the Labour Party in a letter on Sunday.

In it, he specifically refers to an allegation that Epstein made financial payments of around $75,000 to him between 2003 and 2004.

He claims those allegations are false.

and that he had no recollection or record of them, though he has remembered a £10,000 payment from Epstein to his partner in 2009 to pay the cost of an osteopathy course, which Mandelson described as a lapse of judgment.

this whole story also attacks the very premise of Peter Mandelson.

Peter Mandelson is a figure that is sort of, you know, haunted politics most of our adult lives, Coco.

But the premise of Peter Mandelson and this idea that he was the Prince of Darkness, which is a nickname he acquired in the 90s under New Labour, is that he was a person well-versed in the quote-unquote dark arts of politics.

And the reason that people were comfortable with his...