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UK #52
No10 told to hand over private messages on WhatsApp groups as investigation into Mandelson's appointment as US ambassador deepens
By GLEN OWEN Published: 18:09 EDT, 21 March 2026 | Updated: 22:29 EDT, 21 March 2026
Downing Street officials have been ordered to hand over private messages on WhatsApp groups involving Peter Mandelson, as the investigation widens into his disastrous appointment as British ambassador to Washington.
Sir Keir Starmer has faced mounting pressure over allegations of a cover-up during the first release of the Mandelson files earlier this month. Personal email correspondence between Mandelson and former No 10 chief of staff Morgan McSweeney, who played a key role in the appointment, were not made public.
Cat Little, the Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary, has written to officials involved in the decision to appoint Mandelson asking them to hand over any 'group chat' exchanges on 'private devices'.
However on Saturday night critics said the delay meant the most pertinent messages will have deleted automatically by now. It is against the law to 'conceal information with the intention of preventing its disclosure' – but this does not apply to chats which automatically clear after a set period of time.
Amid the ongoing police investigation, the Prime Minister has faced questions about why he did not interview Mandelson to assess the extent of his friendship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Instead he delegated the task to Mr McSweeney and Matthew Doyle – another Mandelson ally and director of communications at the time.
So far only 31 documents and messages relating to Mandelson's appointment and his dismissal nine months later have been made public – all from official email addresses and none involving Mr McSweeney.
And it has been reported Mr McSweeney used his personal email address during discussions with Mandelson before his appointment. Sir Keir agreed to release documents relating to the appointment only under intense pressure from MPs, with the process being overseen by the cross-party intelligence and security committee.
Tory front-bencher Alex Burghart has now written to sleaze watchdog Sir Laurie Magnus demanding an investigation into 'missing' correspondence.
Mandelson was arrested last month on suspicion of misconduct in public office as part of a Met Police probe into whether he passed government information to Epstein. He has denied any wrongdoing.
In 2024 the Prime Minister received an official report showing Mandelson's relationship with Epstein carried on after his conviction. Sir Keir then tasked Mr McSweeney with asking Mandelson just three questions. Lord Doyle then looked at the responses and declared he was 'satisfied'.
There is no written record of Starmer's decision to appoint Mandelson, which was made in an un-minuted meeting.
Alex Burghart, Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, said: 'Ministers sat on their hands while messages and emails were allowed to auto-delete.
'The Government continues frustrating Parliament's will by letting important evidence vanish. This looks like a deliberate cover-up of No 10's involvement in the Mandelson-Epstein scandal.'
Downing Street has rejected claims of a cover-up, but said that there are 'lessons to be learnt on the wider appointment process'.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15667933/No10-told-hand-private-messages-WhatsApp-groups-investigation-Mandelsons-appointment-US-ambassador-deepens.html
Canada #90
Qatar Dethroned As 'LNG King' As U.S. Seizes Throne, Reshaping Future Of Gas
Submitted by Criterion Research President, James Bevan Friday, Mar 20, 2026
The geopolitical calculus underpinning global LNG supply through the early 2030s has shifted materially. Iranian drone strikes on Qatari LNG trains, delays to key expansion projects, and the indefinite closure of the Strait of Hormuz have created a compounding threat to Qatar's LNG position that goes well beyond a construction delay. What had been framed as a two-horse race for global LNG market share now looks considerably more one-sided. The beneficiary is clear: U.S. Gulf Coast LNG.
At Criterion Research, our outlook is for US LNG exports to nearly double by 2030, with further upside in the coming decade
While Qatar’s loss of 12.8 MTPA for 3 to 5 years due to Iranian strikes is a serious blow to Qatar’s 77 MTPA export capacity, it is not a global catastrophe on its own. What is worrying is that Iran has demonstrated the potential for further strikes, which means that even restored capacity cannot be treated as a stable floor. Even if onshore facilities are repaired and the Strait is nominally reopened, LNG tanker operators and their insurers are unlikely to resume normal transits until they have, over time, earned confidence that vessels are not exposed to strikes or mines. That confidence cannot be declared by a government. It has to be proven through sustained safety in a conflict environment with no clear resolution, a process that could take months or years, regardless of the physical state of Qatar's terminals. Molecules that cannot move to market are effectively stranded, and the Strait of Hormuz shipping constraint is the piece that is hardest to resolve through engineering or diplomacy alone.
Beyond current Qatari volumes being impacted, Qatar's three-phase North Field expansion program, encompassing NFE, NFS, and North Field West, was designed to lift total liquefaction capacity from 77 MTPA to 142 MTPA by 2030. Global LNG demand was counting on these volumes. All three phases now face indefinite delays, with no official revised timeline and no near-term path to resuming offshore construction. NFE’s first train had already slipped to a 3Q26 start before the suspension, and rumors say it was pushed to 2027 before strikes began.
Taken together, disruption to the existing base and delay of the full expansion program represent a potential swing of well over 100 MTPA relative to what the market had been counting on through the early 2030s. No other supply source can replace that on a compressed timeline.
The U.S. project queue was already moving aggressively before Qatar's situation deteriorated. According to our data at Criterion Research, Golden Pass LNG is in active commissioning, CP2 Phase 1, Port Arthur, and Rio Grande LNG are all on track for first production in 2027, following, and CP2 Phase 2 reached FID. Post-FID US projects alone are expected to reach 39 Bcf/d by 2033. While the US cannot make up for the lost Qatari volumes before 2030, there is a strong pipeline of pre-FID projects for early 2030 and beyond that may now be pushed over the edge by new customer demand replacing Qatari volumes.
More:
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/qatar-dethroned-lng-king-us-seizes-throne-reshaping-future-gas