Met apologises to Commons speaker for sharing tipoff with Mandelson’s lawyers
by Pippa Crerar and Peter Walker from on (#73TKP)
Exclusive: Police meet Lindsay Hoyle to explain error after Hoyle shared tip that Mandelson planned to flee UK
The Metropolitan police has apologised to the Commons speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, for accidentally revealing he was the source of a tipoff that Peter Mandelson supposedly planned to flee the UK, prompting officers to arrest the former ambassador.
In yet another twist to the saga of Mandelson's departure from his post and the Met's investigation into allegations he fed secret government information to Jeffrey Epstein, Hoyle told MPs on Wednesday that he passed the information to police.
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