Peter Mandelson arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office

Peter Mandelson has been arrested connected suspicion of misconduct successful nationalist office.

A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said: "Officers person arrested a 72-year-old man connected suspicion of misconduct successful nationalist office.

"He was arrested astatine an reside successful Camden connected Monday, 23 February and has been taken to a London constabulary position for interview.

"This follows hunt warrants astatine 2 addresses successful nan Wiltshire and Camden areas.”

The erstwhile Labour curate and US ambassador has been accused of passing connected accusation to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein erstwhile he was business secretary, pinch 2 of his properties searched by police.

Video footage showed a plain clothed constabulary serviceman starring Lord Mandelson retired of a location and driving him distant from his location successful an unmarked car.

Just minutes earlier nan Metropolitan Police announced that Lord Mandelson had been arrested connected suspicion of misconduct successful nationalist agency MPs were told nan first tranche of documents related to Lord Peter Mandelson’s assignment arsenic US ambassador is expected to beryllium released “very soon successful early March”.

However, nan publication of immoderate correspondence betwixt Downing Street and nan adjacent will beryllium delayed “because of nan Metropolitan Police interest”, Chief Secretary to nan Prime Minister Darren Jones said.

The Conservatives accused nan Government of acting “with nan urgency of a tired sloth connected a slope vacation Monday” successful releasing documents related to Lord Mandelson’s assignment arsenic nan US ambassador.

Addressing nan Commons connected Monday, Mike Wood said: “Careful activity must not go a euphemism for managed delay.

“It is clip nan Government stopped treating Parliament for illustration an inconvenient interruption to their schedule, stopped giving each belief that they person priorities moving retired who’s backmost to cover, and started providing immoderate existent answers truthful that we tin commencement to get to nan bottommost of this murky matter.”

Mr Jones responded that nan Government was trying to negociate a criminal investigation, and “I’m judge nan House would not want america to inadvertently interfere pinch that process”.

Sir Keir Starmer has faced sizeable disapproval complete his determination to name Lord Mandelson to nan position contempt his links to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

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