Bev Turner
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It genuinely carries a risk of life imprisonment if you are found guilty of misconduct in public office.
It's an incredibly serious charge.
A lot of people have been waiting for this, to be honest, Georgia, whether he was going to be arrested.
And in some sense, it looks like the U.K.
is moving even more quickly than America when it comes to the Epstein files.
In fact, much more quickly than America.
You know, you had Les Wexner from Victoria's Secret having the overhouse committee go to visit him.
I think it was in Ohio to ask him some questions on the record.
But nobody's actually been arrested here in the States.
And so it does look like to some degree the U.K.
is acting more swiftly.
We've had Prince Andrew arrested.
questioned for 10 hours and then released, that doesn't mean he won't be charged.
It just means that the Crown Prosecution Service, the police officers, are trying to work out what that charge might be and how much evidence there might be to take that case forward.
And it will probably be similar
in the case of Mandelson.
There'll be a huge amount of digging to do.
I mean, we see, any of us who've dipped into the Epstein files, there is so much in there.
I don't know how, as investigating officers, you can give the man hours that will be required for this, but they're certainly trying in the UK.
At the time, at this moment, it's very hard to know.