Met apologises to Commons Speaker for sharing police report with Peter Mandelson’s lawyers

Met apologises to Lord Speaker after Mandelson tip-off error

Lord Mandelson's lawyers said police arrested the peer because of a 'baseless' suggestion he was planning to move abroad.

On the genealogy of Peter Mandelson’s morality

The ongoing Peter Mandelson crisis, with his arrest on 23 February on suspicion of misconduct in public office, is shocking even for those who have spent their careers covering his ups and downs. The depth of Mandelson’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein – and the possibility that the former trade secretary had shared sensitive information with the financier while serving in Gordon Brown’s government – is not something even Keir Starmer’s sternest…

Met apologises to Lord Speaker after he was misidentified over Mandelson info

Lord Forsyth of Drumlean was wrongly said in some media reports to have passed information to the police ahead of Lord Peter Mandelson’s arrest. The Metropolitan Police has apologised to the Speaker of the House of Lords after the “inadvertent revealing of information into allegations of misconduct in public office”. Lord Forsyth of Drumlean was wrongly said in some media reports to have passed information to the police ahead of Lord Peter Mande…

Met Police Apologises to Lord Speaker After Mistakenly Naming Him as Mandelson Arrest Tipster

The Met has supplied a formal apology to both parliamentary speakers now. Good to see everything operating at normal in the capital's police force...

Met’s Lindsay Hoyle blunder makes it unfit to investigate Mandelson

Police officers are taught that an informant’s identity is sacrosanct. This is an iron law: detectives would rather collapse a court case than reveal the identity of a confidential source. This means the Metropolitan Police’s blunder in the Peter Mandelson case is significant. Officers this week clumsily identified Lindsay Hoyle, the Speaker of the House of Commons, as the source of information that Mandelson presented a flight risk. Hoyle’s tip…

Met Police apologises to Commons Speaker over Lord Mandelson tip-off

Lord Mandelson was arrested on Monday on suspicion of misconduct in public office and has been released under investigation. He denies any wrongdoing regarding his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.