<p>The Peter Mandelson Epstein files emails is the biggest scandal of Keir Starmer&#39;s time as Prime Minister, but is it the one to finish him off?The PM admits Peter Mandelson&#39;s ongoing relationship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein came up as part of the vetting process to appoint the disgraced peer as the UK&#39;s man in Washington, but he says Mandelson &#39;lied and lied again’, adding, ‘he betrayed our country and our party’.The government&#39;s invective shows their determination to distance themselves from the scandal but the stench of sleaze and corruption hangs heavy over the Labour government because of Mandelson - the man Keir Starmer was praising less than a year ago.Could it be the final straw for the Prime Minister&#39;s restless backbenchers?On this episode of The Fourcast, Krishnan Guru-Murthy was joined by Starmer biographer Tom Baldwin, the political commentator Zoe Williams and pollster and strategist Scarlett Maguire.</p>