Properties in London and Wiltshire have been searched as police investigate allegations of leaking information to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Published February 6, 2026
British police are searching two properties linked to former Ambassador to Washington Peter Mandelson as they investigate allegations of misconduct in office over his links to the late pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
On Friday, police announced they were carrying out searches at two addresses in London’s Camden area and south-west Wiltshire, as the fallout from the scandal continues to engulf Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
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Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner Hayley Swart said the Met’s Central Special Crime Team was searching the two premises in connection with an “ongoing investigation into misconduct in office involving a 72-year-old man”.
Mr Mandelson, 72, has homes in Wiltshire and London’s Camden area.
The former special envoy is being investigated over documents that show he passed confidential government information to Epstein a decade and a half ago, but has not been arrested or charged.
Mr Starmer fired Mr Mandelson in September, and the first batch of emails was made public in September, revealing that Mr Mandelson remained friends with Mr Epstein even after his 2008 conviction for sex crimes against a minor.
But emails recently released by the U.S. Department of Justice appear to show that as business secretary in former prime minister Gordon Brown’s Labor government, Mandelson passed on sensitive information that could move markets to financiers.
The latest revelations have left Starmer’s opponents and even those in his own party questioning his judgment, at a time when opinion polls show he is deeply unpopular with the British public.
The prime minister apologized on Thursday for believing Mr Mandelson’s “lies” when he appointed him ambassador. His government promised to “provide the police with all the support and assistance they need.”
He is currently under pressure to fire his chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, who is close to Mr Mandelson and is believed to have pushed for Mr Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador.
Mr Mandelson left Mr Starmer’s Labor Party on Sunday and resigned from his seat in the upper house of parliament on Tuesday, but did not respond to messages seeking comment.
