Irish Examiner view: UK upheaval over Mandelson will affect Ireland too

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party would be no friend of Ireland

Peter Mandelson with  British prime minister Keir Starmer and Peter Mandelson last year. Starmer’s government appears to have squandered the mandate given by its landslide general election victory, which raises the spectre of another party assuming power in the near future.

The never-ending Jeffrey Epstein controversy took another twist on Monday with the arrest of Peter Mandelson in England.

Formerly a European commissioner for trade, and a British cabinet minister going even further back, Mandelson was questioned by police regarding accusations that he passed sensitive information to Epstein about matters such as a proposed bailout for the euro.