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UK's Private Eye magazine's front cover on Trump's visit
Prominently displayed on newsstands all over the UK.
(Background: UK Ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson's long and close friendship with Jeffrey Epstein was no secret, but Starmer was forced to sack him last week after new revelations about Mandelson's communications with Epstein excited a media feeding frenzy that's so far culminated in a highly critical debate in Parliament earlier this week about how on earth Mandelson was appointed in the first place, and Starmer struggling and failing to move past the scandal.)