Politicians ‘don’t live how we live’, voters tell me. The Mandelson scandal won’t change their minds

Teona Gherasim

Whoever succeeds Keir Starmer will have an almost impossible task: convincing voters that politicians will serve the people, not themselves Whoever succeeds Keir Starmer will have an almost impossible task: convincing voters that politicians will serve the people, not themselves K eir Starmer’s side of the ever-unfolding Jeffrey Epstein scandal clearly centres on one big decision, the twisted calculations that must have led to it, and a question that is not going to go away: between late 2024