The pressure is mounting on British Prime Minister Keir Starmer over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as UK ambassador to Washington.
Mandelson resigned after his ties with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein came to light publicly.
Attention is now focused on a failed security-vetting decision, why it was overridden, and what the prime minister knew at the time.
Al Jazeera’s Sonia Gallego reports from London.
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