Overview
- Sir Lindsay Hoyle told MPs he passed information received during an official British Virgin Islands visit to the Metropolitan Police in good faith.
- The Met apologised to Hoyle for inadvertently revealing him as the source and also apologised to Lord Forsyth after he was wrongly identified, with Forsyth meeting the force on Thursday to seek clarification.
- Lord Peter Mandelson remains under investigation after his arrest on Monday on suspicion of misconduct in public office and has been bailed until May.
- The inquiry relates to allegations he passed sensitive government information to Jeffrey Epstein, which Mandelson has repeatedly denied.
- Mandelson’s lawyers say police abandoned a planned voluntary interview for next month and acted on a “baseless” claim that he was a flight risk to the British Virgin Islands.