SIR KEIR STARMER must “stop the delays,” strip Peter Mandelson of his peerage and claw back his £75,000 “golden goodbye,” the SNP demanded today.

The party’s Westminster leader Dave Doogan made the call as the PM prepared to face a grilling from MPs in the wake of the release of thousands of documents relating to Mr Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador.

Mr Mandelson lasted just seven months in post before he was sacked over his friendship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, a widely publicised relationship which continued even after the financier’s 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from someone under 18. 

Mr Doogan said: “Scottish taxpayers will be appalled to hear that the Labour government has allowed Mandelson to retain his peerage and titles, and that taxpayers are still being forced to foot the bill for his pay-off and pension, despite everything we now know.

“Mandelson should never have been appointed and nine months have now passed since the Prime Minister was shamed into sacking him. 

“There is no excuse for Starmer’s failure to act — it is yet another broken promise, which has left Scottish families paying the price for Starmer’s mistake.”

He said: “Keir Starmer appointed Peter Mandelson despite it being a matter of public record that he had maintained his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the world’s most notorious paedophile, and despite knowing that Mandelson had previously been forced to resign from government multiple times due to his role in numerous scandals.

“It’s now clear that Starmer is on his way out. He must decide whether he wants to break yet another promise as he heads through the exit door.”

The UK government was contacted for comment.