WATCH: Morgan McSweeney says seeing pictures of Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein were a 'knife through his soul'

Georgia Pearce
Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:26:21 +0000

Morgan McSweeney has told the Foreign Affairs Committee that seeing the pics of Lord Peter Mandelson with Jeffrey Epstein were a "knife through my soul".

Mr McSweeney told MPs: "The nature of the relationship that I understood he [Peter Mandelson] had with Epstein was not a close friendship.

"How I understood it at the time was a passing acquaintance that he regretted having, and that he apologised for what has emerged since then was way, way, way worse than I had expected at the time.

"And it was when I saw the pictures, when I saw the Bloomberg questions in September 2025, I have to say it was like a knife through my soul."

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