Peter Mandelson asked Foreign Office for £500k severance payment, files show

Former peer sacked as US ambassador over links to Jeffrey Epstein was offered £75,000, documents released by Cabinet Office show UK politics live – latest updates Peter Mandelson was offered a severance payment of £75,000 – having initially asked the Foreign Office to pay him more than £500,000 upon his sacking as US ambassador, newly released documents reveal. Exchanges in the documents released by the Cabinet Office suggested that officials did “well to get this settlement down this low w...

By Jessica Elgot Deputy political editor