Gordon Brown asks top civil servant to investigate Mandelson ‘leak to Epstein’
Ex-PM asks cabinet secretary to investigate whether Mandelson shared market-sensitive informationUK politics live – latest updatesThe former prime minister Gordon Brown has asked the cabinet secretary to investigate Peter Mandelson’s apparent disclosure of highly sensitive government...
<p>Ex-PM asks cabinet secretary to investigate whether Mandelson shared market-sensitive information</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/feb/02/uk-politics-peter-mandelson-jeffrey-epstein-labour-party-fallout-latest-updates">UK politics live – latest updates</a></p></li></ul><p>The former prime minister Gordon Brown has asked the cabinet secretary to investigate Peter Mandelson’s apparent disclosure of highly sensitive government information to Jeffrey Epstein.</p><p>Mandelson was business secretary during Brown’s premiership, when he appears to have leaked an economic briefing to Epstein, who was serving a jail sentence at the time for soliciting prostitution from a minor.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/02/gordon-brown-asks-top-civil-servant-to-investigate-mandelson-leak-to-epstein">Continue reading...</a>
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