Nigel Farage this week condemned Keir Starmer’s decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as “seriously wrong” and insisted that the Prime Minister should immediately stand down.
“Given all the previous warnings about Mandelson’s behaviour, it [was] a grave error of judgement on behalf of the Prime Minister,” Farage told a press conference in Westminster.
Which is interesting. Because when Starmer first appointed Mandelson as US Ambassador, the Reform leader offered a very different response.
Here’s how Farage’s reaction to the Epstein and Mandelson scandal has been deeply hypocritical, and how his own connections to the story are much closer than he now admits.