Monday briefing: How Trump and his allies flipped and flipped again on the Epstein files

In today’s newsletter: Having once demanded full disclosure, senior Maga figures have attempted to block efforts to publish the recordsGood morning. Leading Republicans were once full-throated in their calls for the release of every single scrap of information the US government might hold on the sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his ties to the establishment.Years of Maga supporters entertaining the QAnon-fuelled frenzy of pizzagate conspiracies seemed to have pushed senior GOP figures in a direction where they believed publication of more information on the Epstein case would expose the Democratic party elite and the “wokerati” of Hollywood as vile sex fiends.Immigration | Refugees who have established lives with homes and families in the UK – including Ukrainians – will face having to return if their home countries become safe, Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, has said.BBC | The BBC should not pay any money to Donald Trump, the former BBC director