{"id":25038,"date":"2026-02-25T12:17:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T12:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=25038"},"modified":"2026-02-25T12:17:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T12:17:20","slug":"commons-speaker-says-he-passed-information-to-met-that-mandelson-planned-to-flee-uk-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=25038","title":{"rendered":"Commons speaker says he passed information to Met that Mandelson planned to flee UK | UK news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The House of Commons speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, has said he passed information to the Metropolitan police that Peter Mandelson planned to flee the country, after receiving information \u201cin good faith\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Mandelson was arrested on Monday on suspicion of misconduct in a public office, relating to his friendship with the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Mandelson has denied he planned to flee to the British Virgin Islands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In a statement to the house, Hoyle said: \u201cMembers will be aware of comments in the media regarding the arrest of Lord Mandelson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cTo prevent any inaccurate speculation, I\u2019d like to confirm that upon receipt of information, that I felt it was relevant I pass this on to the Metropolitan police in good faith, as is my duty and responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><em>More <\/em><em>details to follow \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Commons #speaker #passed #information #Met #Mandelson #planned #flee #news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Commons speaker, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}