{"id":502220,"date":"2026-02-25T02:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T02:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/502220\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T02:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T02:40:08","slug":"mandelsons-lawyers-say-he-was-arrested-over-baseless-claim-he-was-a-flight-risk-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/502220\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandelson&#039;s lawyers say he was arrested over &#039;baseless&#039; claim he was a flight risk &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTE5OVXlBcmIxRnFDVHlQVHBFY1cyemRaWGtZa3UtOWNPQ2FhbUdNY1ZTUEZDRjBRUWRsczZpZWpzLU1sU2ZJNHBadmNoUmljYlJvcWxfX2g5N3JLZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mandelson&#8217;s lawyers say he was arrested over &#8216;baseless&#8217; claim he was a flight risk<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMirAFBVV95cUxPU0tzWGUwczYtaDZCcFVnTUdaemFoSFljSElHeGhRdTdUY2hPaEU5dlM1RXBPaU9Pb2NLN3pJV19TZkhkSmdjMk1rOWxwOThnYUR1VE94QW44Z2w5QXZVamRGeUtqejVyN2dOa2s2a1FSbnBLZ3FNbGVfMk1qWDVfNlRKbXBOLWw5aVhhcUZOZk8tVmVlamdLaktWc210VV8yTnMzdl9XQTZzMV9D?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">UK&#8217;s former ambassador to US released on bail as Epstein files fallout continues<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;abc.net.au<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMivgFBVV95cUxOOWtSTDIzZFBOS01mcFI3S0Zvd0JCWjBtV1JjdEViTzJqZGJWZjBTS2c2bUpXS2NhbTdfR0J1cHNFUkJHQXYwd2ozNkNPNHpLeDRvVmI2bldBQTNocmVVUDQ5b2hXZ0RYZHViWVJ1OEFnS1dBMEJEelZKbTVFa0hwb202V25JZkVUQjZEVnRYQ1duSGFTdlpsR1V3U2c3TWlubFpNNUdSbXZKZUlIVWkwdGlFRFhDbjduTzJVaG9n?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">So Epstein buddies Andrew and Mandelson have been arrested in the UK. And in the US? Zero, zip, nada<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiVEFVX3lxTFBWUXVyeGw2eUxCYXllSFNiUENnS05UaS02ZG1TTWR2cy0wbzVkMHRMR0ZXYjFPcGVCYW5fTlNsZE5POUxWRTg5Y2FLSGlZb0NiTUdQRQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lord Mandelson arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi_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?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Police in Britain arrest Peter Mandelson, a former ambassador, in probe into Epstein ties<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;9News.com.au<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mandelson&#8217;s lawyers say he was arrested over &#8216;baseless&#8217; claim he was a flight risk&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCUK&#8217;s former ambassador to US&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-502220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}