Hartlepool strips Peter Mandelson of civic honour
by Eleni Courea, Political Correspondent from on (#70GA9)
Councillors withdraw Freedom of Hartlepool award over former ambassador's links to Jeffrey Epstein
Peter Mandelson will be stripped of a civic honour he received from Hartlepool, the town he represented as Labour MP, after the disclosures about his close friendship with the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Councillors in Hartlepool voted unanimously on Thursday to withdraw the Freedom of Hartlepool from Mandelson, who represented the area between 1992 and 2004.
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