{"id":13242,"date":"2026-02-24T02:16:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T02:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=13242"},"modified":"2026-02-24T02:16:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T02:16:51","slug":"british-police-arrest-epstein-linked-ex-ambassador-mandelson-police-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=13242","title":{"rendered":"British police arrest Epstein-linked ex-ambassador Mandelson | Police News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"article__subhead\"><em>Former top Labour Party official Peter Mandelson is being probed for suspected \u2018misconduct in public office\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><button class=\"article-listen-container\" aria-labelledby=\"listen-text listen-duration\" data-testid=\"listen-to-article-button\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-listen-container__text\" data-testid=\"listen-to-article-text\">Listen to this article<\/span><span 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Monday.<\/p>\n<section class=\"more-on\">\n<h2 class=\"more-on__heading\">Recommended Stories<!-- --> <\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list of 4 items<\/span><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>Without directly naming Mandelson in keeping with its policy, the Metropolitan Police confirmed a 72-year-old man had been arrested \u201con suspicion of misconduct in public office\u201d and taken to a London police station to be questioned.<\/p>\n<p>Photos published by the UK\u2019s The Times newspaper appeared to show Mandelson wearing khakis, a grey sweater, and a dark jacket while being led into a vehicle by a plainclothes officer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is absolutely seismic political news,\u201d reported Al Jazeera\u2019s Jonah Hull from London, noting Mandelson \u201cis an enormous figure here\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate response from Mandelson\u2019s lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>Mandelson, 72, who still holds the British title of \u201cLord\u201d, has been engulfed in scandal since a trove of emails released by the United States Department of Justice last month shed new light on his connection with the late Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>The emails revealed that the two shared a closer relationship than had been publicly known, and that Mandelson shared information with Epstein when he was a minister in former Prime \u2060Minister Gordon Brown\u2019s government.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Mandelson \u2013 who was fired as ambassador to the US last year over earlier revelations about his relationship with Epstein \u2013\u00a0resigned from Prime Minister Keir Starmer\u2019s Labour Party and quit his \u2060position in Parliament\u2019s upper chamber.<\/p>\n<p>He previously \u2060said he \u201cvery deeply\u201d regretted his past association with convicted sex trafficker Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>Mandelson\u2019s arrest comes less than a week after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the younger brother of Britain\u2019s King Charles III,\u00a0 was also arrested for questioning as part of a similar probe stemming from his ties to Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>The UK government is now weighing legislation to strip the former prince from the royal line of succession, causing his ties to the royal family to be \u201call but decimated\u201d, said Hull.\u00a0Mountbatten-Windsor has denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>The UK\u2019s Epstein fallout is also putting further pressure on Starmer, who has faced some calls to step down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat this will do is add yet more political scandal, political drama and political weight to the position that Starmer finds himself in,\u201d said Hull. \u201cIt appears as if the fallout from the Epstein scandal is being more keenly felt here than on the other side of the Atlantic \u2013 where, of course, Epstein lived and came from.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former top Labour Party official Peter Mandelson is being probed for suspected 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