India, Feb. 10 -- Epstein files row has put the fate of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in uncertainty as he faces growing calls for resignation after uproar over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as the UK's ambassador to Washington. Mandelson's past ties to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who died in a New York jail in 2019, has created tensions within UK's ruling party which were further heightened following Starmer's closest aide and Chief of Staff, Morgan McSweeney, stepped down to take "full responsibility" for Mandelson's appointment.

"Anyone that has any association with Peter Mandelson should be nowhere near government," Steve Wright, the general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, was quoted as saying by the BBC.

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