{"id":48434,"date":"2026-03-12T11:27:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/minister-defends-pms-handling-of-mandelson-appointment\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T11:27:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:27:42","slug":"minister-defends-pms-handling-of-mandelson-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/minister-defends-pms-handling-of-mandelson-appointment\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister defends PM&#039;s handling of Mandelson appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>Documents show Sir Keir Starmer was warned the peer&#8217;s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein posed a &#8220;reputational risk&#8221;.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c875nzlv7ddo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Documents show Sir Keir Starmer was warned the peer&#8217;s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein posed a &#8220;reputational risk&#8221;. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[9898,368,6667,7561,1830,14153],"class_list":["post-48434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk","tag-appointment","tag-defends","tag-handling","tag-mandelson","tag-minister","tag-pm039s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48436,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48434\/revisions\/48436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}