In the United Kingdom, authorities arrested and then released Peter Mandelson, the former British ambassador to the United States, over allegations that he had passed confidential government information to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The London Metropolitan Police had started its investigation into Mandelson earlier this month and said that it had arrested him “on suspicion of misconduct in public office.” Mandelson’s arrest comes just days after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former prince, was arrested for the same offense. Mandelson served as a government minister between 1997 and 2001, and again from 2008 to 2010. He was fired from his diplomatic post in September last year as more information about his relationship with Epstein was released. There are now growing calls for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to resign, since Starmer tapped Mandelson to be Britain’s top U.S. envoy. This is Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch.

Kemi Badenoch: “This is the defining moment of Keir Starmer’s premiership. Watching the man who he appointed to the highest position in our diplomatic service getting arrested by police, I think, is an image that’s going to stay with all of us for many, many years to come. And when people think about Keir Starmer and his premiership, they will see the arrest of Peter Mandelson as the defining moment.”