Lord Mandelson relieves himself in the street after Osborne visit

Lord Mandelson was photographed relieving himself against a wall after spending the evening at George Osborne’s central London home.

The former British ambassador to the US, who was sacked in September over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, urinated on a wall while waiting for a taxi on Wednesday evening.

Photographs first published by the Daily Mail showed the Labour peer shortly before 11pm relieving himself on a street in Notting Hill.

The newspaper reported that the wall in question was part of the property of James Reed, of Reed Recruitment.

Mr Reed told the newspaper: “I’m surprised that whichever of my neighbours he happened to be visiting didn’t offer him a toilet.”

He added: “It doesn’t seem very diplomatic.”

‘Revolting behaviour’

An onlooker, who remained anonymous, told the newspaper that Lord Mandelson, 72, looked “worse for wear”.

“We have to put up with this sort of revolting behaviour during the Notting Hill Carnival. It’s a shame to see that people still feel entitled to urinate in the street here three months later, and quite outrageous that the person responsible should be a peer of the realm,” the onlooker said.

The former US ambassador offered “profuse apologies” for the incident when contacted by the Daily Mail, explaining that he had relieved himself in public because of the long wait for a taxi.

“I was stood up by two Uber drivers and kept waiting in the street for half an hour and was bursting. There is no disguising my embarrassment.”

Julian Lee, a criminal defence expert, said: “Technically, it’s against the law under a public order act of 1986, but it’s very unlikely that someone who gets caught short would end up being prosecuted.

“The only exception would be if they had caused alarm or distress to another person, or caused criminal damage, or were also doing something of a sexual nature. I very much doubt those factors apply in this case.”

Lord Mandelson had arrived at the £10m residence of the former Tory chancellor at around 8pm with a bottle of wine on Wednesday.

Since departing from his ambassadorial post in Washington, the former Labour spin doctor has returned to the UK.

He has lost a handful of other honorary titles since the disclosures about his ongoing friendship with Epstein, the paedophile financier, after his conviction.

Last week, it emerged he had been removed from the list of honorary fellows of St Catherine’s College, Oxford, where he had been an undergraduate between 1973 and 1976.

[Source: Daily Telegraph]