Gordon Brown asks top civil servant to investigate Mandelson ‘leak to Epstein’

Ex-PM asks cabinet secretary to investigate whether Mandelson shared market-sensitive informationUK politics live – latest updatesThe former prime minister Gordon Brown has asked the cabinet secretary to investigate Peter Mandelson’s apparent disclosure of highly sensitive government information to Jeffrey Epstein.Mandelson was business secretary during Brown’s premiership, when he appears to have leaked an economic briefing to Epstein, who was serving a jail sentence at the time for soliciting prostitution from a minor. Continue reading...