Former UK Ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson was arrested on Monday on suspicion of misconduct in public office, London’s Metropolitan Police said.CNN reported that Mandelson, a veteran Labor Party politician, was accused of passing market-sensitive information to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein when he was the UK government’s business secretary.A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: “Officers have arrested a 72-year-old man on suspicion of misconduct in a public office. He was arrested at an address in Camden on Monday, February 23, and taken to a London police station for an interview.”“This follows search warrants at two addresses in the Wiltshire and Camden areas.”The revelation of the latest batch of Epstein files led to Mandelson’s resignation from the Labor Party earlier this month, after he left the House of Lords, the upper chamber of the British Parliament, in the same week.The former politician was fired from his ambassadorial post in September by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer following the earlier release of Epstein files that showed he described the financier as “my best friend” in a handwritten note marking his 50th birthday.The unfolding Mandelson scandal has threatened to unseat Starmer’s premiership, and the bitter fallout has led to the resignations of key advisers and growing calls from senior Labor figures for the British prime minister to step down.The British leader faced questions about how much he knew about Mandelson’s close relationship with the late sex offender when he appointed him ambassador.
