The UK's Prime Minister is facing growing questions over what he knew about Peter Mandelson's relationship with Jeffery Epstein when he appointed him as Ambassador to the US. Keir Starmer fired him after Bloomberg published a series of emails between Mandelson and the convicted paedophile. The departure comes at a difficult time for the government as it prepares to host a state visit for the US President. In this final episode of the Bloomberg UK Politics podcast, our finance reporter Harry Wilson takes us behind the scenes of the Bloomberg scoop. He tells us what the emails reveal, alongside our political correspondent Ellen Milligan. Hosted by Stephen Carroll and Caroline Hepker with Yuan Potts, who share their thoughts on more than 1,000 episodes of the show.

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Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has ended Westminster's summer holidays with a bang. Her admission she underpaid taxes on a property purchase has abruptly torpedoed the government's plans for a reset. Our UK politics reporter James Woolcock explains how the week fell apart for Labour. Meanwhile, we finally have a date for the Budget. Our senior UK economy reporter Philip Aldrick joins to discuss the chancellor's dilemmas over taxes. Hosted by Yuan Potts and Caroline Hepker.

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More lobbyists than ever before plan to attend Reform UK’s annual conference next week in a sign corporate Britain is increasingly taking Nigel Farage’s small parliamentary party seriously as an electoral force. Exclusive polling shared with Bloomberg finds that public affairs professionals are now engaging with Reform as if it could become a credible alternative to power. We talk to Jon Gerlis from the Chartered Institute of Public Relations about why business sees Reform UK as impossible to ignore. Hosted by Caroline Hepker and James Woolcock.

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