Hartlepool strips Peter Mandelson of civic honour

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 a Labour MP, after the disclosures about his close friendship with the child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Councillors in Hartlepool voted unanimously on Thursday to withdraw the Freedom of Hartlepool from Lord Mandelson, who represented the area between 1992 and 2004.