Peter Mandelson and Palantir

Why Are No Questions Being Asked about the Role of Jeffrey Epstein’s Business Partner’s Tech Firm in the UK?

Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel had extensive business dealings with the sex offender – but the same scrutiny is not being applied to the firm’s UK government contracts as that generated by the Mandelson scandal. Nafeez Ahmed reports

The downfall of Peter Mandelson – who was forced to resign from the Labour Party and the House of Lords, and is being investigated by the Metropolitan Police over allegations of misconduct in public office, after further revelations about his relationship to Jeffrey Epstein – raises questions about the forfeiting of access to power in the UK.

New Labour architect Mandelson, who was appointed as the Ambassador to Washington by Keir Starmer last year on the advice of his now former chief advisor Morgan McSweeney – who has also resigned over the scandal – is accused of sharing market-sensitive government information with Epstein as Business Secretary in 2009-2010.

But Epstein was also a business partner in a Silicon Valley venture fund, Valar Ventures, controlled by billionaire tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel – whose firm Palantir, which he co-founded, holds more than £670 million worth of contracts with the UK Government.