Winston Marshall

It was in the public domain already, as revealed by the FT in June 2023, that Mandelson had maintained a post-conviction relationship with Epstein, i.e.

after Epstein had been convicted in 2008, Mandelson continued his friendship with him.

In that 2023 expose by the FT, we learned that he even stayed at Epstein.

Epstein's Paris apartment during Epstein's prison time and they had communications after which Epstein would call him Petey.

They were friends.

Then he becomes a

Ambassador in February 2025, September 2025, we have the first tranche of Epstein files, famously the birthday message, the big birthdays.

I don't know if you've gone through that book, it's like a 250 page document of sort of memories of Epstein and messages from friends.

And in that birthday book, he says,

Mandelson calls Epstein his best pal and that he loves him.

And what's important to remember, though, is that birthday book was from 2003, so pre-conviction.

So you might say, oh, well, it's not necessarily the case that he knew about the sort of dastardly, disgusting behavior.

But it was also the case then that there was evidence of a post-2008 relationship.

And there's also evidence that he flew on Epstein's jet.

And it shows an ongoing communication.

So in other words, we knew that they were friends post-conviction.

Why this is important is because although there is new information that's been released over the last week in this new tranche from January 30th, and it's pretty disgusting information, when it comes to the sleaze

we've actually known the core salient issues all along.

And why this is also important that your American viewers might not have picked up on is in the British media and across the British nation, it is the sleaze that everyone is focusing on.

Yes, except I think it's very unlikely that Labour Party will have an election.