Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle Told Police Mandelson Planned To Abscond

House of Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle.

House of Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle tipped off police that Lord Peter Mandelson was allegedly planning to flee the UK, it has emerged.

The former Labour peer was arrested by Metropolitan Police detectives on Monday over claims he committed misconduct in a public office by passing sensitive information to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein when he was business secretary after the 2008 financial crash.

Mandelson, the UK’s former ambassador to Washington...