Health Secretary Wes Streeting has shared WhatsApp and text messages he exchanged with Lord Mandelson between August 2024 and October 2025.
Mr Streeting says he has not spoken to the disgraced new Labour grandee in six months, since before the peer was sacked as UK ambassador to the US over his links to the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
He used an interview with Sky News political editor Beth Rigby to say that he had “nothing to hide” in the messages and rejected her suggestion that they showed he had an “intimate friendship” with Lord Mandelson.
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Sky News is redacting one of the exchanges as it contains sensitive personal information.
Read the other messages in full:
30 August 2024
[30/08/2024, 22:22:35] Wes Streeting: Great pitch and lovely photos in the Times
[30/08/2024, 22:23:09] Lord Mandelson: X
31 August 2024
[31/08/2024, 12:19:24] Lord Mandelson: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/peter-mandelson-interview-oxford-chancellor-state-schools-sbd0h6323
[31/08/2024, 12:19:30] Lord Mandelson: Different headline
[31/08/2024, 12:20:57] Wes Streeting:…
