Jeffrey Epstein was an American financier who was ultimately arrested by U.S. authorities accused of sex crimes on American soil. But somehow, it is Great Britain that seems most thoroughly rocked by the staggered release of the case files by the U.S. Department of Justice — the latest cache of which has left Prime Minister Keir Starmer fighting for his political life.

“Don’t think that this scandal is just another political scandal … This involves sex, it involves money, it involves the royal family. It involves the leaking of market-sensitive, confidential information,” Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage said of the debacle on Thursday.