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The chief of staff to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer resigned on Sunday over the scandal around Peter Mandelson’s appointment as UK ambassador to the US, despite his links to disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“The decision to appoint Peter Mandelson was wrong. He has damaged our party, our country and trust in politics itself,” Morgan McSweeney said in a statement to reporters on Sunday.
The Downing Street chief of staff is the most senior political adviser to the UK prime minister.
McSweeney said he took “full responsibility” for advising Starmer to make the appointment last year, adding “in the…