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Jim Pickard 🐋
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Jim Pickard 🐋
@PickardJE
Deputy Political Editor, Financial Times: Political Journalism team award 2019 (Corbyn’s Labour) & 2021 (Greensill Capital)
London Katılım Ağustos 2009
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More details here about David Taylor, and the awkward questions that the three arrests today — all of former Labour advisers — raises for the party
W/ @PickardJE, @RKWinvisibleman & Sam Jones
ft.trib.al/Qi4bODx
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@AaronBastani To be fair I think Jim Pickard did corner Mandelson on a train interview and ask him questions about his relationship with Epstein. One of the only ones I think that did so
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This was Jim Pickard in the FT six years ago.
There was no scrutiny from any of these people on Starmer when it mattered. He was ‘their guy’.
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"A lack of curiosity..."
@nicholaswatt recalls a 2024 press conference in which Keir Starmer was asked about Peter Mandelson’s association with Jeffrey Epstein, and reports concerns among female Labour MPs about the Prime Minister's judgement.
#Newsnight
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our story from Friday night: ft.com/content/5bba35…
Nicholas Guyatt@NicholasGuyatt
In case you're struggling with the paywall, here's this morning's story about Starmer, Mandelson and Palantir. The FT is pretty much the only UK media source to emerge from this omniscandal with its reputation enhanced
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Here's the latest edition of The Media Show. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…
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And the early history of Global Counsel can't be separated from Jeffrey Epstein. Jim Pickard and the FT have the story: ft.com/content/13d2f9…
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Here's what we know about the Cabinet Office's propriety and ethics document on Lord Mandelson
* It's just two pages long. Someone familiar with it says it's a 'word doc that has been copied and pasted from Google. It is not sophisticated'
* It includes a @PickardJE FT scoop from 2023 about Mandelson staying in Epstein's Manhattan apartment in 2009 - crucially after Epstein's conviction
* As per @PronouncedAlva it also includes a precis of his previous scandals and a run-through of Global Counsel's Russian and Chinese interests
* Officials think it is 'insane' that it was the only vetting that was conducted before the prime minister announced his appointment
* But as cursory as it is the document is hugely damaging for the prime minister. It shows that he pushed ahead with the appointment of Mandelson despite being told about his friendship with Epstein
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Sky News asked Starmer back in January 2024 whether knew Mandelson had stayed at Epstein’s townhouse in 2009 - while Epstein was in jail. Mandelson was Labour Business Secretary and Gordon Brown’s Deputy PM. They specifically referenced both the @FT piece and the JP Morgan report
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Tomorrow is the first anniversary of Peter Mandelson's big pre-Washington interview, when he claimed questions about Epstein were "an FT obsession" adding: "You can all f*** off."
ft.com/content/085e20…
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The only reason Peter Mandelson is no longer our Ambassador in Washington is because the Conservative Party shamed the Government into acting. Keir Starmer was forced to fire him.
But the Government have refused to set out how exactly he came to be appointed in the first place.
If Keir Starmer had a backbone he would suspend Mandelson’s membership of the Labour Party and launch an immediate investigation into how Mandelson and his husband were being sent money by the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. At the time Mandelson was Labour's Business Secretary and acting as Deputy Prime Minister.
This is an international scandal. The cover up needs to end. The Prime Minister must act.
Financial Times@FT
Jeffrey Epstein sent Peter Mandelson $75,000, documents show ft.trib.al/VOvwhlq
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This is the saddest, most pathetic thing I've ever seen.
Vaughn Hillyard@VaughnHillyard
WH has installed a series of plaques under Trump's new “Presidential Walk of Fame." On Biden: “Sleepy Joe Biden was, by far, the worst President" On Obama: “One of the most divisive political figures in American History...creation of the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax"
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The Hamble Valley Reform UK Branch uses an AI generated image of people captioned “Real People” on its website (2025)
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
New peerages to be announced.
On Monday the Lib Dems were not in favour of Labour’s UnEmployment Bill.
Let’s see how Lib Dem peers vote on the exact same bill today…
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@waitrose not sure how you managed to lose 40 (not a joke) items from my food order and still not be able to find them, worst customer service ever
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spokesperson for Sadiq Khan:
“We are not going to dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response.
London is the greatest city in the world, safer than major US cities, and we’re delighted to welcome the record number of US citizens moving here.”
Steven Swinford@Steven_Swinford
Donald Trump accuses Sadiq Khan of attempting to impose Sharia law in London “I look at London, where you have a terrible mayor, terrible terrible mayor, and it’s been so changed, so changed. Now they want to go to Sharia law, but you’re in a different country. 'Both their immigration and suicidal energy ideas will be the death of western Europe if something is not done immediately. This cannot be sustained' He also says the UK should exploit North Sea oil. 'What a tremendous asset for the UK. I hope the prime minister is listening because I told it to him three days in a row, that's all he heard. North Sea oil, North sea oil. 'I want to stop seeing them ruining their beautiful Scottish and English countryside with windmills and massive solar panels that go seven miles by seven miles, taking away farmland'
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this particular document is buried in a cache of 33,000 documents released by a Washington committee on September 2
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Lord Peter Mandelson did not disclose in the House of Commons register two flights he took at Jeffrey Epstein’s expense in 2003 worth a total of $7,486, raising further questions about their relationship.
#myft:notification:instant-email:content" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ft.com/content/4cf6fd…
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