Government documents have revealed new details about Lord Mandelson’s appointment as the UK’s ambassador to the US and the aftermath of his sacking last year. Lord Mandelson was sacked as ambassador last year following revelations detailing his friendship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The first batch of documents show that senior officials had raised concerns about Lord Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador and that he’d asked for over £500,000 in severance pay. But as someone who is staunchly anti-Brexit and who supports more cooperation with China, he is seen by some as the riskier choice to take on the role in Donald Trump’s Washington. Mandelson was dubbed the “Prince of Darkness” during his years as Tony Blair’s spin doctor PA Archive Born in Hendon in 1953 Lord Mandelson grew up in the leafy Hampstead Garden Suburb in Barnet, where he attended the Hendon County Grammar School and acted with local amateur theatre group, the Hampstead Garden Suburb Dramatic Society. On his mother Mary’s side, he is the grandson of Herbert Morrison, a …