{"id":315888,"date":"2026-02-25T04:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/315888\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T04:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:22:08","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\/ie\/315888\/","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\/CBMibkFVX3lxTFBCWFdPN0xITWl5ZTdmMWtwWVhyUnc1Y3h4cldXVGp2SGdiaVU3dktXSlk4RnZ0dlEtbUhxNDdfY3NUem8xdkVlcDgwbjRGU2JvM0dVZmNfNnhueV9XVTV1NnF3SEpBVzVLSXdJYThn?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mandelson lawyers say claim on leaving country &#8216;baseless&#8217;<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ie<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\/CBMi0gFBVV95cUxOeGxySjFQRHJpeU83c1c1cDNQOHpNNXVDOFhCRUo1Ql9BcnA5MHhzRkc1UnliQ0FuS3VGc0tyNHBvelRUR2k5QWZkNjl1VHF5b2gxc2lkQ0hpaG9RX3RNWV9OeUx3LWdQVjYyOWdHOThkMFlrX01hQk5YR0VXaVdJdzIxbjg0a1YwUlRrNlJBRTBDY0JQNktHS2RHOUs1aTBobU1OTmlXTXFyX0RKRDFtNDhCSWdzYjdIcnRBeWJVdXBRbE5nSGFHQVNCQkZ3RzNLYkE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Peter Mandelson\u2019s lawyers say arrest stemmed from \u2018baseless suggestion\u2019 he planned to leave UK<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Times<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTFBXMGt0bnlPV21US2dPZ19aUl9kZFJwNTEwSExhZFlqODFlWXNFVUNsVkpXM2ZHWmtMWnZ2RmlzRzRjU3VCZlV1SDZSaWo5dW5vd2oyUGVrRk1Zdw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lord Mandelson released on bail after arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<\/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;BBCMandelson lawyers say claim on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-315888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}