Peter Mandelson was arrested two days ago by the Metropolitan Police invesigating the fallout from the Epstein Saga in the United States. He was held for 8 hours before being released on bail.
The allegations the Police are investigating relate to this outrageous common law English crime called 'Misconduct in Public Office'. This deeply unsatisfactory crime is the sort of crime that, for a public official, is magnificently vague but covers every alleged wrongdoing under the sun.
Yesterday, Mandelson's solicitors hit out at the decision to arrest him on Police suspicion that he was going to flee the country. They said there was 'absolutely no truth whatsoever' on which to base that suspicion and we accept that without question.
In our view, this is the Metropolitan Police response to the Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrest by Thames Valley Police of last week. We regard both arrests as totally without justification at this stage of the investigations.
We have the same bad vibes about Mandelson's arrest that we had of Mountbatten-Windsor's arrest.
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