The prime minister was said to have received the two-page document from the Cabinet Office Propriety and Ethics Team (PET) last December.
In a separate report published by the BBC, it was revealed Starmer explicitly asked Mandelson about his links to Epstein before making his decision to appoint him as an ambassador.
On Saturday, Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, accused Starmer of “lying to the whole country” about how much the prime minister “knew regarding Mandelson’s involvement with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein”.
Starmer first defended the Labour peer on Wednesday, but dismissed him on Thursday, with the government claiming the prime minister did not initially know about the emails’ contents.
The Foreign Office issued a statement saying the emails showed a “depth and extent” of a relationship which was “materially different from that known at the time of his appointment.”
It is also likely to add pressure to McSweeney, who pushed for Mandelson’s appointment in Washington, despite being familiar with the report’s contents, it is understood.
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He said the vetting process would have rigorously investigated any links or red flags with help from UK and US intelligence and law enforcement.
On Friday, Foreign Affairs Committee chair Emily Thornberry wrote to the Foreign secretary with a list of questions about the security vetting process for Mandelson, including if any concerns were ignored by the Government
A US State Department official also confirmed that US officials would have conducted its own extensive checks when Mandelson was nominated for the role by Downing Street.
They added that any such concerns could have been escalated all the way to the White House, adding that any reference to Epstein would have been a “difficult conversation” with Donald Trump.
“It’s possible it was or it’s possible it was left out,” they said. “It would have been a small group to brief POTUS.”
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