UK minister calls latest image of Andrew ‘very disturbing’ and urges him to testify – UK politics live

Andrew Mounbatten-Windsor features heavily in the latest tranche of the Epstein files, released on Friday by the US justice department

The latest files released by the department of justice also showed former ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson, was paid $50,000 by Jeffrey Epstein in two payments in June 2004, when he was a Labour MP.

As a reminder, Mandelson was sacked in September over leaked emails in which he expressed his support for Epstein and urged him to “fight for early release” in 2008 while the disgraced financier was facing charges of soliciting sex from minors.

I think before taking any action like that, we need to understand exactly what’s happened. You’re asking me here about something that happened nearly 20 years ago. I don’t know the full detail of it, I wasn’t in government 20 years ago.

I don’t know whether he declared it or not, and he should have done – the declaration rules had been brought in by then – so I think it would be for Peter Mandelson to explain whether or not that money was properly declared, and if not, then he will need to account for that.

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Source: www.theguardian.com

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