Keir Starmer‘s right-hand man commiserated with Peter Mandelson on the day he was sacked as US ambassador, leaked messages have revealed.
Darren Jones told the disgraced peer he was ‘so sorry’ he had been forced out over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
Mr Jones, who oversaw the publication of the Mandelson files to parliament, told MPs that he had exchanged messages with the architect of New Labour but he no longer had access to them and so could not release them.
But a string of damaging messages between the two men have now been leaked to the Spectator magazine.
Lord Mandelson was sacked on
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