U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday fired the country's ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson, over his links to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In a statement in the House of Commons on Thursday, Foreign Office minister Stephen Doughty said the decision came in the wake of the publication this week of emails Mandelson sent to Epstein in the 2000s. MORE: https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/uk-fires-ambassador-to-the-us-peter-mandelson/507-11dc3cc9-7f3c-48dc-aa57-fc45d71267c5