View of the Week (Special Weekly Edition): On Jeffrey Epstein Gaining Power Over the Global Elite & The Storming Scandal in the UK


The team at the Rest is Politics, Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart,  comments on the Sex Trafficker Jeffrey Epstein (convicted of child prostitution in 2009) , and the relationship he had with Peter Mandelson  (as he had leaked Sensitive UK Government Secrets to Epstein and even stayed at the Epstein Apartment in New York City while Epstein was in prison for Sex Trafficking and as Mandelson took money from Epstein) , and the bigger  threat to Democracy around the World by oligrachs.     Peter Mandelson has resigned as a member of the Labor Party in the UK and the UK House of Lords as investigations in the United States continue with Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton set to testify before the US House of Representatives.  

We also present the following courtesy the team at the New Statesman on Mandelson and Epstein along with thoughts from the Daily Telegraph and speculating whether this may cause Sir Keir Starmer to lose the position of UK Prime Minister:


We close out with a personal retrospective from Alistair Campbell:

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