# UK members of Parliament have rejected a motion calling for prime minister, Keir Starmer to face a parliamentary inquiry into whether he misled the House of Commons over Peter Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador. The House voted 335 to 223 against a Conservative-led motion that sought to trigger the inquiry. Mandelson is alleged to have passed on market-sensitive government information to the late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, while he was the Business Secretary from 2008 to 2010. The Labour Party labelled the motion a “political stunt”.
Keir Starmer escapes a parliamentary inquiry over Peter Mandelson’s vetting process