The Metropolitan Police has apologised to Sir Lindsay Hoyle after officers told Peter Mandelson’s lawyers he tipped them off about claims the disgraced former peer planned to flee to the British Virgin Islands, prompting his arrest.
The Commons speaker told MPs on Wednesday that he had passed on information to the force “in good faith” after it was reported he had alerted officers that Lord Mandelson was a flight risk amid a police investigation into his links to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
