UK’s Epstein crisis

The Nation: Starmer’s personal ratings are already at rock bottom—the worst of any prime minister on record. But newly released Epstein files have prompted the resignation from the party of former US ambassador Peter Mandelson, as well as a police investigation, with Starmer’s top aides stepping down and mounting calls for the prime minister to go. If he is safe for now, it is only for lack of alternatives within his party. The prime minister has promised to change. But it’s hard to believe, much less feel sympathy for someone who brought this upon himself—not just the Epstein-related scandal but the dismal fortunes of the party in general. In any case, sympathies, now and always, should remain with the victims of Epstein’s heinous abuses, the countless women and girls for whom justice is constantly denied in the face of rotten political machinations…