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The Metropolitan Police arrested Lord Mandelson on Monday after receiving a tip from the Speaker of the House of Commons that the former US ambassador was poised to flee to the British Virgin Islands.
Lindsay Hoyle, the Speaker, confirmed in the Commons chamber on Wednesday morning that he was the person who told the Met that his former Labour colleague was a possible flight risk.
Mandelson’s lawyers issued a statement on Tuesday evening saying that any suggestion he planned to leave the country was entirely “baseless”, accusing the Met Police of breaching an agreement for the former cabinet minister to talk to officers voluntarily in March.
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