The drip-feed of damaging stories about Peter Mandelson's appointment as the UK's top diplomat in Washington continues to haunt Keir Starmer. Revelations over the so-called Prince of Darkness's friendship with the billionaire predator Jeffrey Epstein have rocked the Labour government in recent months. It led to the Prime Minister's brush with political death back in February where his top advisers set up a ‘war room’ in No10 to hit the phones to shore up his position. Scottish Labour leader