Opinion | Ex-Prince Andrew Arrest: Why Only Andy And Not Mandy?

There is something fishy about arresting Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor for ‘misconduct in public office’ but letting Lord Mandelson off the hook.

Without an iota of sympathy for “former" Prince Andrew, it would not be unfair to say that he is as much a fall guy as he is an entitled and rather stupid blueblood. The Jeffrey Epstein documents have certainly cooked his goose by revealing that while he may or may not have consensual sex with trafficked girls, underage or otherwise, supplied by the American hustler, Andrew then repaid him by passing on confidential business information to Epstein. But therein lies the rub.

Andrew is hardly the only privileged person who supplied information to Epstein and facilitated access; indeed, that list is huge and many of them had far more important bits of information to pass on. There is overwhelming evidence of Lord Peter Mandelson passing on confidential information from the very highest echelons to Epstein almost as soon as he got it. Yet there is a deafening silence right now about action against him, given that the Labour Party is in power.

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Lord Mandelson—who leaked information to Epstein while a minister in Gordon Brown’s Labour government—had two houses raided by the police on February 6, but rather inexplicably—or perhaps not so inexplicably—has not been arrested. The hapless and now title-less Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, however, was arrested on the very day detectives from the Thames Valley police arrived at his new abode in Norfolk, which also happened to be his........

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