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Lee Anderson has unleashed a scathing attack on Lord Mandelson, branding him “lower than a snake’s belly” in a viral X post. The post followed further revelations related to the peer’s ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Reform UK MP Mr Anderson’s barb came in response to a blistering Commons speech by recent Reform recruit Robert Jenrick, who demanded Lord Mandelson face criminal charges rather than cling to his Lords seat. Sharing Mr Jenrick’s clip, Mr Anderson wrote: “Well said @RobertJenrick. Mandelson is lower than a snake’s belly.”

The post, fired off on Monday evening, has racked up thousands of likes and hundreds of reposts, amplifying calls for accountability amid explosive US Department of Justice revelations.

Mr Jenrick addressed the House: “Mr Speaker, the revelations we have seen in the last 48 hours are not just a matter of ’embarrassment’ for the Labour Party; they are a matter of national security and the rule of law.”

He accused Lord Mandelson, then Business Secretary under Gordon Brown, of forwarding internal Downing Street memos and market-sensitive data to Epstein, a convicted paedophile.

This potentially allowed the financier’s JP Morgan associates to profit from the 2008 banking collapse.

Mr Jenrick stated: “It’s an absolute insult to the victims of Jeffrey Epstein that this government’s only response is to ask the Cabinet Secretary for a ‘review.’ This isn’t a case for an HR review; it is a case for the Metropolitan Police. Peter Mandelson has clearly broken the law and stands now accused of serious misconduct in a public office, and he should be tried for his offences.”

He urged Prime Minister Keir Starmer to demand a criminal probe and introduce emergency legislation to strip Lord Mandelson of his peerage.

Mr Jenrick concluded: “You cannot have a ‘changed Labour Party’ when you are still protecting the man who sold out this country’s secrets to a sex offender,” earning a “+1” nod in his post.

Sir Keir has said Lord Mandelson should resign his peerage.

The scandal stems from DOJ files exposing Lord Mandelson’s communications with Epstein during the global financial crisis.

As Business Secretary, Lord Mandelson allegedly shared an “interesting note that’s gone to the PM” – an assessment by Mr Brown’s adviser Nick Butler on policy measures including an “asset sales plan.”

Epstein queried “what salable assets,” receiving a reply about “land, property I guess.”

Further documents show Lord Mandelson appearing to promise lobbying on banker bonus taxes in 2009 and confirming a euro bailout package a day early in 2010.

An analysis of business lending by minister Baroness Vadera was also forwarded to Epstein, with Lord Mandelson on the email thread.

Lord Mandelson has hit back, insisting in a Times interview that Epstein’s money did not sway his actions.

He admitted a “lapse in judgment” over a £10,000 transfer from Epstein funding an osteopathy course for his husband Reinaldo Avila da Silva in 2009, amid crisis talks.

Lord Mandelson said: “In retrospect, it was clearly a lapse in our collective judgment… At the time it was not a consequential decision.”

Dismissing bribery claims, Lord Mandelson called the idea that the bursary influenced banking policy “risible.”

He claimed “absolutely no recollection” of $75,000 payments from Epstein between 2003 and 2004, as bank details suggest.

Lord Mandelson asserted: “None of the recently released Epstein files indicate wrongdoing or misdemeanour on my part,” rejecting full withdrawal from public life as “disproportionate.”

The Metropolitan Police are reviewing reports of misconduct in public office, assessing if they meet the criminal threshold.

Cabinet Secretary Sir Chris Wormald is probing the leaks, at Mr Brown’s request.

Former Labour deputy leader Baroness Harman branded Lord Mandelson “untrustworthy” since the 1990s, shocked by the “degree of his wrongdoing.”

She urged Mr Starmer to advise the King to remove him from the Privy Council and block his Lords return.

Government minister Karin Smyth called his membership “shameful,” noting reforms need cross-party support without a Lords majority.

Former Treasury chief Nick Macpherson hinted at contemporary suspicions of leaks to Number 10’s “inside track.”

Baroness MacLeod, ex-adviser to the late Alistair Darling, decried the “terrible breach of trust,” stating that the former Chancellor would have been “shocked at the scale of this treachery” had he lived to see it.

A Government spokesman said: “It is rightly for the police to determine whether to investigate, and the Government stands ready to provide whatever support and assistance the police need.”

Express.co.uk has contacted Lord Mandelson via the House of Lords for comment.