Epstein emails expose Mandelson's covert strategy talks during Brown coalition bid

US DOJ-released emails show Peter Mandelson traded political strategy with Jeffrey Epstein around Gordon Brown's 2010 bid to form a Labour–Liberal Democrat coalition, including discussions with Nick Clegg and the idea of Brown staying in power while talks continued. The messages offer a minute-by-minute glimpse of the coalition wrangle and raise questions about Mandelson's judgment; Mandelson returned to government in 2008 and has not commented on the exchanges.