The Metropolitan Police is to review allegations about Lord Peter Mandelson after receiving “a number of reports relating to alleged misconduct in a public office” arising from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.
A cache of documents in the so-called Epstein files includes revelations that Mandelson passed on confidential information from the highest levels of the UK government to the convicted sex offender while he was a cabinet minister.
This included leaking plans for a €500bn bailout of the euro to Epstein as well as a private Downing Street document discussing the government’s financial proposals while he was both business secretary and de facto deputy prime minister in 2009 and 2010.