What was a sitting lawmaker doing, allegedly passing on sensitive financial information to an American financier who had already been convicted of child sex offences and served time in jail, asks Sean O’Grady W ell, I didn’t have “seeing a picture of Peter Mandelson in his underpants” on my bingo card for 2026 . According to a Mandelson spokesperson: “No one can say who or where the photo was taken. Lord Mandelson has absolutely no idea, or indeed whether it has any connection to Epstein at all.