Peter Mandelson Finally Makes Personal Apology To Jeffrey Epstein's Victms |
Mandelson was forced to quit as Britain's ambassador to the US over the scandal.
Peter Mandelson has finally issued a personal apology to the victims of Jeffrey Epstein for continuing his friendship with the late paedophile.
The Labour peer and former UK ambassador to Washington was criticised for failing to do so during a BBC interview on Sunday.
Lord Mandelson would only say sorry “for a system that refused to hear” Epstein’s victims or give them protection.
He said: “I was not culpable, I was not knowledgable about what he was doing, and I will regret until my dying day the fact that powerless women were not given the protection they were entitled to expect.”
The interview, with Laura Kuenssberg,........