LONDON — Pressure is increasing for the former Prince Andrew to give evidence to a U.S. congressional committee investigating the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after Britain\u2019s prime minister suggested he should testify.<\/p>\n
Keir Starmer declined to comment directly about King Charles III\u2019s disgraced younger brother, but told reporters traveling with him for the Group of 20 summit in Johannesburg that as a \u201cgeneral principle\u201d people should provide evidence to investigators.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t comment on his particular case,\u2019\u2019 Starmer said. \u201cBut as a general principle I\u2019ve held for a very long time is that anybody who has got relevant information in relation to these kind of cases should give that evidence to those that need it.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
The former prince, now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, has so far ignored a request from members of the House Oversight Committee for a \u201ctranscribed interview\u201d about his \u201clong-standing friendship\u201d with Epstein. Andrew was stripped of his royal titles and honors last month as the royal family tried to insulate itself from criticism about his relationship with Epstein.<\/p>\n
Starmer\u2019s comments came after Rep. Robert Garcia of California, the committee\u2019s ranking Democrat, and Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, a Democrat from Virginia, said Andrew \u201ccontinues to hide\u201d from serious questions.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur work will move forward with or without him, and we will hold anyone who was involved in these crimes accountable, no matter their wealth, status or political party,\u201d they said in a statement released on Friday. \u201cWe will get justice for the survivors.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON — Pressure is increasing for the former Prince Andrew to give evidence to a U.S. congressional committee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[114095,233,113424,59,232,57,58,50,229,228,56,54,55,231],"class_list":{"0":"post-278962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-114095","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-g20-summit","11":"tag-gb","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-greatbritain","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-royalty","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-unitedkingdom","21":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}