A cabinet minister has called on Peter Mandelson to give up the five-figure taxpayer-funded pay-off he received after being sacked as the UK’s ambassador to Washington.
Work and pensions secretary Pat McFadden suggested the disgraced peer donate the money to a charity for female victims of violence.
The Sunday Times reported that Mandelson received between £38,750 and £55,000 – equivalent to three months’ salary – after Keir Starmer sacked him last September over his association with the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The former Labour peer now faces a criminal investigation into allegations he passed market-sensitive information to Epstein when he was business secretary between 2008 and 2010.
On Sky News this morning, McFadden was asked whether Mandelson should give up the pay-off.
He said: “I think he probably should, yes – either give it back or give it to a charity, perhaps one involving violence against women and girls.
“I think taking a pay-off in these circumstances, I don’t think the public will think much of that.”
A No 10 source told the Press Association: “Given what we know now, Mandelson should either pay the money back or give it to a charity to support victims.”
Shadow foreign secretary Priti Patel said: “A five-figure taxpayer funded payout for Lord Mandelson is a disgusting betrayal Epstein’s victims.
“The government must ensure Mandelson’s golden goodbye is recovered in full.”
A Foreign Office spokesman said the pay-off was being “reviewed” by officials.
He said: “Peter Mandelson’s civil service employment was terminated in September 2025 in accordance with legal advice and the terms and conditions of his employment.
“As we have consistently said to parliament, normal civil service HR processes were followed.
“Further information will be provided to parliament as part of the government response to the motion passed last week which is being co-ordinated by Cabinet Office.
“A review has been instigated in light of further information that has now been revealed and the ongoing police investigation.”
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A growing “unsung army” of 1 million people with full-time caring responsibilities needs better support, according to a report that found one in three unpaid carers from poorer backgrounds were unable to work because of their duties.
The trend is the result of an ageing society and rising ill-health and disability concentrated in the poorest half of the country’s working-age families, the Resolution Foundation’s research found.
Almost one in three working-age adults in lower-income families had a disability, compared with fewer than one in five in better-off families, the thinktank said.
It added that in homes of modest means, 1 million people had caring responsibilities of 35 hours or more a week – the equivalent of a full-time job – making it challenging to secure paid work.
Mike Brewer, the deputy chief executive of the Resolution Foundation, said: “Britain is getting older and sicker, while a greater share of its population has a disability. While these trends affect the whole of society, they are starkest in the poorest half of working-age families across the country.
“While we talk a lot about the effects of ageing and ill-health, the implications on demand for unpaid care is largely absent from political debate.
“That’s despite Britain having an ‘unsung army’ of 1 million people who do at least 35 hours of unpaid care work every week – equivalent to a full-time job.
“It is time to provide better support for these carers and their families, just as we have done with working parents in recent decades.”
In response, a government spokesperson said: “We understand the huge difference carers make, as well as the struggles they may face.
“That’s why we’ve delivered the biggest ever cash increase in the earnings threshold for carer’s allowance, whilst unpaid carers can also receive support, including short breaks and respite services, through the Better Care Fund.
“Alongside this, we are reviewing the implementation of carer’s leave and considering the benefits of introducing paid carer’s leave.”
In 2024, a Guardian investigation revealed that tens of thousands of unpaid carers, most of them already in poverty, had received large bills for overpayments that ran into thousands of pounds as a result of failures by the Department for Work and Pensions.
Those affected unwittingly fell foul of earnings rules despite a promise in 2019 by the DWP’s permanent secretary, Peter Schofield, that new technology would eradicate the problem of overpayments.
In the five years after the verify earnings and pensions tool, known as VEP, was presented as a solution to the problems of carer’s allowance, more than 262,000 overpayments totalling in excess of £325m were clawed back from carers, and 600 carers were prosecuted and received criminal records, according to the National Audit Office.
As a result of the investigation, Labour set up an independent review of the allowance and raised the earnings limit for those claiming it.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has hinted that anew June deadline from the US for peace between Ukraine and Russia could be linked to Trump’s midterm elections campaign. The Ukrainian president on Saturday told reporters that both sides had been invited to further talks next week. Zelenskyy said the Trump administration “will probably put pressure” on Ukraine and Russia to end the war by the beginning of the summer. “They say they want to get everything done by June,” he said. He told reporters the Trump administration was proposing to host the next round of trilateral talks in the US, probably in Miami, in a week’s time. “We confirmed our participation,” he said. “The [midterm] elections are definitely more important for them [the Americans]. Let’s not be naive.” He added: “If the Russians are really ready to end the war, then it is really important to set a deadline.”
US and Ukrainian negotiators had discussed how to secure a quick deal, according to sources familiar with the matter quoted by Reuters. Ukraine had suggested a sequencing plan, Zelenskyy said, but he provided no specific details.
The Ukrainian president has also criticised Russia for an overnight attack on Ukrainian energy facilities areas, saying in comments posted on X that Moscow must be deprived of the ability to use the cold winter weather as leverage against Kyiv. A “massive attack” by Russian forces on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure on Saturday caused power outages across the country, the state grid operator said.
There are clear signs the Russian economy is finally running aground, as the Kremlin faces its most precarious economic position since its tanks first rolled into Ukraine. Growth has slowed to a crawl amid falling oil prices – a key source of government revenue. Russians face tax hikes while funding for welfare, education and healthcare is being crowded out by defence spending. Trade with key allies has become more muted, corporate bankruptcies are rising and labour shortages are severe. Experts say how the malaise affects the conflict in Ukraine will depend on Russia’s recent macroeconomic manoeuvres, and whether global events continue to drive down oil prices.
The UK is threatening to seize a Russia-linked shadow fleet tanker in an escalatory move that could lead to the opening up of a new front against Moscow at a time when the country’s oil revenues are tumbling. British defence sources confirmed that military options to capture a rogue ship had been identified in discussions involving Nato allies – although a month has gone by since the US-led seizure of a Russian tanker in the Atlantic. In January, 23 shadow fleet ships using false or fraudulent flags were spotted in the Channel or Baltic Sea, according to Lloyd’s List Intelligence. Many are linked to the export of Russian oil, largely by water to China, India and Turkey.
President Donald Trump has taken what some experts have said is an unusual step of tapping military leaders for high-level diplomacy, positioning the Army secretary as a key negotiator on ending the Russia-Ukraine war and sending the top US commander in the Middle East, Adm. Brad Cooper, to talks about Iran’s nuclear program. As Army secretary Dan Driscoll reprised his role at Russia-Ukraine talks this week, he worked to keep the conversation going with Ukrainian officials in the downtime between sessions, according to a person familiar with the negotiations who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive talks.
“Today” show host Savannah Guthrie and her siblings released a new video on Saturday pleading for the return of their missing mother and saying, “We will pay.”
“We received your message and we understand,” Guthrie said in the brief video posted to Instagram. “We beg you now to return our mother to us so we can celebrate with her. This is the only way we will have peace. This is very valuable to us, and we will pay.”
Nancy Guthrie, 84, was last seen Jan. 31, and authorities have said they believe she was abducted from her home.
U.S. journalist and television host Savannah Guthrie, accompanied by her siblings Annie and Camron, speaks in a video message, addressing that they are willing to pay for the release of their elderly mother, Nancy Guthrie, who went missing from her Arizona home several days ago, in this screen grab obtained from social media video taken at an unspecified location and released February 7, 2026. Savannah Guthrie via Instagram/via REUTERS
Savannah Guthrie Via Instagram/via Reuters
“We are aware of the video posted by the Guthrie family. But don’t have any additional information to share,” a spokesperson for Pima Sheriff said in a statement to ABC News on Saturday following the release of the latest video from the family.
The message Savannah Guthrie references in her new Instagram post is the same message the FBI and Pima Sheriff said they were studying Friday, according to a source familiar with the investigation.
Investigators still have not confirmed the authenticity of the latest message which was received by a Tucson television station, nor any of the other ransom notes mentioning Nancy Guthrie, according to the source.
A drone view shows investigators searching the home of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of U.S. journalist and television host Savannah Guthrie, who went missing from her home in Tucson, U.S. February 6, 2026.
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However, investigators continue to take all of the messages seriously.
There are no new leads that developed Saturday, the source said, echoing an earlier statement from the Pima County Sheriff’s Department
The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information that could lead to the recovery of Nancy Guthrie and/or an arrest and conviction in her abduction.
Nancy Guthrie was dropped off at home in the Catalina Foothills area north of Tucson, Arizona, shortly after 10 p.m. on Jan. 31, after having dinner with her family, according to authorities. She was reported missing the next morning after she did not show up to church, according to authorities.
In this image provided by NBCUniversal, Savannah Guthrie, right, her mom Nancy speak, Wednesday, April 17, 2019, in New York.
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A doorbell camera at her home was disconnected at about 1:45 a.m. Sunday morning, authorities said. Shortly before 2:30 a.m. her pacemaker app indicated it was disconnected from her phone, according to authorities.
This image provided by the Pima County Sheriff’s Department on Feb. 2, 2026, shows a missing person alert for Nancy Guthrie.
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Her blood was also found on the porch of her home, according to the sheriff.
Investigators have not identified a suspect or person of interest in the case, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said during a press briefing on Thursday.
Ransom notes have been sent to several local and national media outlets, according to the FBI.
Prior to the video on Saturday, Savannah Guthrie and her siblings have posted other videos urging their mother’s suspected kidnappers to make contact with them and provide proof she is still alive.
ABC News’ Aaron Katersky andTrevor Ault contributed to this report.
In December, Governor JB Pritzker (D) signed a bill legalizing assisted suicide in Illinois. At the signing, Pritzker emphasized that the act would give terminally ill patients the autonomy to avoid unnecessary pain and suffering. Five days later, New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) vowed to make assisted suicide legal in her state, saying such a move would allow New Yorkers “to suffer less–to shorten not their lives, but their deaths.”
Once Hochul signs New York’s “Medical Aid in Dying Act” into law this year, New York will become the thirteenth state, following Illinois, to legalize assisted death.
Proponents of assisted suicide present it as a compassionate response to suffering, arguing that it offers the terminally ill one final exercise in autonomy and a so-called “death with dignity.”
While avoiding pain is the primary justification activists invoke, most patients give different reasons for choosing a premature death. Loss of autonomy and fear of burdening family members consistently rank higher than unmanaged physical pain.
In Canada, where Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) has become the fifth leading cause of death since its legalization in 2016, government reports show that the most commonly cited reasons for seeking assisted death are not uncontrolled pain. More than 80 percent of recipients report loss of independence or inability to engage in meaningful activities, while roughly 45 percent report not wanting to be a burden. Oregon’s data shows the same pattern. In 2024, 89 percent of recipients cited loss of autonomy, and 42 percent—almost half—reported concern about burdening family.
These data points tell their own story about the strong cultural messaging patients have absorbed: that a life without autonomy is not worth living, and needing others is a failure.
Admiral Brian Christine, MD, the Assistant Secretary for Health at the Department of Health and Human Services. (Photo by Amy Rossetti/HHS)
As a physician, I recognize the deeply human impulse behind these assumptions. No one wants to feel powerless in the face of suffering or ask others to share in it. Yet, the difficulty of suffering does not absolve us of the responsibility to recognize the dignity inherent to every human person. We, at the Department of Health and Human Services, do not support assisted suicide, not because we deny the reality or severity of suffering, but because intentionally ending the life of a person violates human dignity. That dignity is not conditional; it does not depend on physical strength, independence, cognitive capacity, or health.
Pope John Paul II expressed this with particular clarity in Evangelium Vitae: “Even in the midst of difficulties and uncertainties, every person sincerely open to truth and goodness can, by the light of reason and the hidden action of grace, come to recognize in the natural law written in the heart … the sacred value of human life from its very beginning until its end, and can affirm the right of every human being to have this primary good respected to the highest degree.”
If dignity depended on autonomy alone, then the very young, the cognitively impaired, the severely disabled, and the dying would possess less dignity precisely when they are most in need of protection. Dignity must guide care practices, not by authorizing death when autonomy falters, but by obligating the community to surround vulnerable persons with protection, care, and love until natural death.
Supporters often reassure the public that assisted suicide laws are narrowly limited to the “terminally ill,” commonly defined as those expected to die within six months. In practice, this safeguard is weak. Physicians cannot reliably predict when a patient has six months to live, particularly in cases involving chronic or degenerative illness. What is presented as a narrow category quickly becomes expansive.
When the state accepts the premise that some lives are no longer worth supporting, safeguards erode. Assisted suicide regimes expand beyond their original targets, as seen in Belgium and the Netherlands, where eligibility now includes chronic and psychological illnesses and extends to children.
As Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, I believe there is a better path. It is more demanding, but it is more humane. It requires investment in comprehensive palliative and hospice care that relieves pain without eliminating the patient. It requires mental health care that will treat despair rather than ratify it. It requires meaningful support for the sick, their families, and their caregivers so that no one feels abandoned. Above all, it requires a cultural renewal, one that understands dependence not as failure, but as a shared human condition.
A society is ultimately judged not by how efficiently it eliminates suffering, but by how faithfully it stands by those who suffer. We must choose a culture of care, not a culture of death. We reaffirm without exception the sacred value of every human life, from its beginning until natural end.
Admiral Brian Christine, MD, is Assistant Secretary for Health at the Department of Health and Human Services and head of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.
A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the Trump administration’s mass detention policy, allowing illegal immigrants to be detained without bond.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) can lawfully deny bond hearings to immigrants arrested nationwide under the Constitution and federal immigration law.
Attorney General Pam Bondi reacted to the ruling, saying the Department of Justice (DOJ) “secured yet another crucial legal victory” in support of President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda.
“The Fifth Circuit just held illegal aliens can rightfully be detained without bond — a significant blow against activist judges who have been undermining our efforts to make America safe again at every turn,” she wrote on X. “Thank you to Ben Hayes who argued this case, Brett Shumate and the @DOJCivil Division. We will continue vindicating President Trump’s law and order agenda in courtrooms across the country.”
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A federal appeals court upheld the Department of Homeland Security’s authority to detain illegal aliens without bond hearings, a ruling Attorney General Pam Bondi called a major legal victory for the Trump administration.(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Circuit judge Edith H. Jones wrote in the majority opinion that “unadmitted aliens apprehended anywhere in the United States are ineligible for release on bond, regardless of how long they have resided inside the United States.”
Many illegal immigrants who were not detained at the border previously had the opportunity to request a bond hearing as their cases progressed, and those without a criminal history who were not deemed flight risks were often granted bond.
“That prior Administrations decided to use less than their full enforcement authority under” the law “does not mean they lacked the authority to do more,” Jones wrote.
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The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that federal law allows illegal immigrants to be detained without bond, a decision praised by Attorney General Pam Bondi.(U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
Writing in dissent, Circuit Judge Dana M. Douglas said that the members of Congress who passed the Immigration and Nationality Act roughly 30 years ago “would be surprised to learn it had also required the detention without bond of two million people.”
Douglas noted that some of the people detained are “the spouses, mothers, fathers, and grandparents of American citizens.”
The ruling stems from two separate cases filed last year against the Trump administration, both involving Mexican nationals who had lived in the U.S. for more than a decade and were not considered flight risks, according to their attorneys.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that federal law permits the Department of Homeland Security to deny bond hearings to illegal immigrants arrested across the country, siding with the Trump administration’s enforcement policy.(@ICE via X)
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Although they did not have criminal records, both were jailed for months last year before a lower court in Texas granted them bond last October.
A payment given to Lord Peter Mandelson when he was sacked as ambassador to the US is being reviewed after the latest revelations in the Epstein files.
The peer lost his role in September last year over his relationship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, just seven months into the job.
However, anger in Westminster has grown after the last release of documents, which indicated he leaked information to his friend while he was a government minister.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s allies have said he should give the taxpayer-funded handout, which could run into the tens of thousands, back or donate it to a victims’ charity.
“Given what we know now, Mandelson should either pay the money back or give it to a charity to support victims,” a Downing Street source said.
The Foreign Office said a review had been launched “in light of further information that has now been revealed”.
The payoff Lord Mandelson received could be as high as £55,000 before tax and deductions, the Sunday Times reported.
The Foreign Office previously said it had “reached a settlement in order to terminate Peter Mandelson’s civil service employment with immediate effect, in accordance with legal advice and the terms and conditions of his employment”.
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Full details of the payoff are set to be revealed in parliament after MPs backed a call for the papers relating to his time in government to be disclosed.
The Sunday Times suggests it could be between £38,750 and £55,000, which is based on a three-month payoff of the highest annual salary in the diplomatic service between £155,000 and £220,000.
A Foreign Office spokesman said: “Peter Mandelson’s civil service employment was terminated in September 2025 in accordance with legal advice and the terms and conditions of his employment.
“Normal civil service HR processes were followed. Further information will be provided to Parliament as part of the government response to the motion passed last week which is being coordinated by cabinet office.
“A review has been instigated in light of further information that has now been revealed and the ongoing police investigation.”
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Lord Mandelson has been accused of sharing market-sensitive information with Epstein after the 2008 global financial crisis.
Police investigating claims of misconduct in a public office by Lord Mandelson have concluded their searches of two of his properties – in Camden, north London, and in Wiltshire.
The Metropolitan Police said the criminal investigation is “complex” and will require a “significant amount of further evidence gathering and analysis”.
Image: Peter Mandelson. Pic: Reuters
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Lord Mandelson’s representatives have been contacted for comment.
He has previously said: “I was wrong to believe Epstein following his conviction [in 2008 for procuring a child for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute] and to continue my association with him afterwards.
“I apologise unequivocally for doing so to the women and girls who suffered.”
Police search homes in relation to Mandelson probe
On Saturday afternoon, a top corporate and financial crime lawyer visited Lord Mandelson’s house near Regent’s Park, London.
Adrian Darbishire KC arrived at the property shortly before midday, before leaving around 90 minutes later.
US TV news host Savannah Guthrie has told the potential kidnappers of her 84-year-old mother that her family “will pay” for her safe return.
Nancy Guthrie was last seen at her own home near Tucson, Arizona, on the evening of 31 January, and was reported missing the next day after she did not turn up at church.
Law enforcement officials have concluded that she was kidnapped, but the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said it has not identified any suspects or people of interest in the case.
On Saturday, a week after her mother’s disappearance, the NBC News Today co-anchor posted a video on Instagram where she urged those believed to be holding Ms Guthrie to return her.
“We received your message and we understand,” she said, joined by her siblings Cameron and Annie. “We beg you now to return our mother to us, so that we can celebrate with her.”
“This is the only way we will have peace,” she added. “This is very valuable to us, and we will pay.”
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Savannah Guthrie was referring to a message sent to the Tucson-based television station KOLD on Friday, according to Kevin Smith, a spokesperson for the FBI office in Phoenix.
KOLD said it received an email related to the Guthrie case on social media that day but declined to share details about its contents as the FBI conducted its review.
The station was one of several news outlets, including Sky’s US partner network NBC News, that received alleged ransom letters during the week.
Image: Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her home in Tucson. Pic: Reuters
NBC News confirmed it had reviewed a copy of the note, however, no law enforcement agency has so far substantiated it.
Image: Ms Guthrie has not been seen since 31 January. Pic: Pima County Sheriff’s Department
Sky’s US correspondent Martha Kelner said that “this is obviously a huge mystery still”, noting that there are “no suspects and no persons of interest in this case”.
While it’s still unclear who the sender is, she added it appears they “used the same secure server to hide their IP address” and that the new note “the senders believe will indicate to investigators that they are the same person or people that sent the original note”.
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It comes after it emerged that police investigating Ms Guthrie’s disappearance were searching for a vehicle or vehicles that may be connected to her case.
A spokesperson for the convenience store chain Circle K told NBC News on Friday that officers visited one of their stores after “receiving a tip regarding a vehicle of interest, and our team has provided them access to the store’s surveillance video”.
Sky News has contacted the Pima County Sheriff’s Department for comment.
