Bev Turner

Of course, he would absolutely dispute that they have anything in common.

He's an apolitical appointment, but it's an important job in this town.

And of course, events may be slightly overshadowed by the arrest of Lord Mandelson, former Lord Mandelson, because of course he's lost that title.

This potential bomb was coming over the horizon for the prime minister.

I don't know how he thought he could get away with it.

So the royal family have been very quiet on the Epstein scandal, despite the fact that the king's brother, Andrew, until recently, Prince Andrew, is so closely related to the Epstein Island events.

He's all over the Epstein files with his now ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, famously Fergie in the 90s, early 2000s, the redhead everyone remembers.

Some of their interactions with Epstein just display them as being greedy, opportunistic.

really having no moral compass whatsoever.

So that inevitably reflects badly on the royal family because Andrew was apparently the Queen's favourite son.

Now his brother is King.

And this was unprecedented when this week King Charles said, we will cooperate with the police if necessary.

And the royal family are in, you know, their future is never certain in the UK, but at the moment it feels very precarious indeed.

We elected a Labour government about 20 months ago now with Sir Keir Starmer as the leader.

They won a pretty significant majority, a very significant majority of seats in the House of Commons without actually a huge percentage of the votes.

It's just a sort of characteristic of our political system.

Now, as part of that administration, one of the most significant positions is, of course, the British ambassador to America.

Six months ago, maybe less, Peter Mandelson, Lord Peter Mandelson, was given that job here in D.C.

To gasps of shock.

from anybody within the media and anybody that knew anything about politics, because it was so obvious that coming down the line was going to be the Epstein files.