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Lord Peter Mandelson is poised to quit the House of Lords, according to people familiar with the situation.
The Speaker of the House of Lords is expected to make a statement saying that Mandelson will no longer be a peer from midnight.
The former Labour cabinet minister and UK ambassador to Washington has been under pressure over revelations that he passed government documents to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, from whom he had taken $75,000.
Earlier on Tuesday, Downing Street said Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer had directed officials to draft legislation to remove Mandelson from parliament’s upper chamber as quickly as possible.
Mandelson, who is on a leave of absence from the Lords at present, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
This is a developing story