Britain fires ambassador to U.S. over Epstein friendship

Peter Mandelson has a long history performing the "gray eminence" gigs of British politics, and his closeness to billionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein brings an early end to the latest. After the publication of records detailing Mandelson and Epstein's weird and oleaginous friendship, Mandelson was fired today as Britain's ambassador to the U.S.

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