Daily Star says: Peter Mandelson saga sparks a whodunnit after ‘flight danger’ claims
Peter Mandelson said claims he was planning to flee the country are ‘baseless’ after Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle told police he was a possible flight risk
Peter Mandelson was arrested this week(Image: AFP via Getty Images)
It’s been a right old case of House of Common’s Whodunnit. Yesterday (February 25) Speaker Lindsay Hoyle confessed it was he who tipped off cops that Peter Mandelson was a possible flight risk.
Sir Lindsay said he’d had reason to believe the peer was planning to travel to the British Virgin Islands to avoid arrest. The information was passed to him weeks earlier when he was in the BVI himself.
It led to the New Labour grandee being arrested at his home on Monday on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Cops had said they swooped in after receiving the tip-off from a “reputable source” – which should have remained anonymous.
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But Sir Lindsay made the dramatic disclosure to avoid any more “inaccurate speculation” after rumours started to fly around Parliament’s halls. Many had wrongly thought his counterpart in the Lords – Tory Michael Forsyth – had passed on the tip.
Peter Mandelson has said claims he was planning to flee the country are “baseless” and “complete fiction”.
Of course the law must be allowed to take its own course. But we hope this saga will soon come to an end.
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