the Conservatives successfully<\/a> did with Mandelson\u2019s appointment as ambassador.<\/p>\n\u201cThere are major questions the government needs to answer over Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor\u2019s role as trade envoy, and how he was seemingly able to act with impunity. The Liberal Democrats will be using our opposition day to force this debate into the open,\u201d a Lib Dem spokesperson said, without giving details about what this might involve.<\/p>\n
\u201cParliament cannot be expected to look the other way. We must be able to debate this fully without fear or favour, while not prejudicing the ongoing police investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Changing the line of succession would be likely to take time given the need to get approval from all 14 Commonwealth nations. While he has given up his royal titles, Andrew remains eighth in line to the throne.<\/p>\n
A photo released by the US Department of Justice appears to show Andrew, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell near Balmoral in Scotland. Photograph: US Department of Justice<\/p>\n
In his letter to Starmer, Albanese wrote: \u201cIn light of recent events concerning Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, I am writing to confirm that my government would agree to any proposal to remove him from the line of royal succession.<\/p>\n
\u201cI agree with his majesty that the law must now take its full course and there must be a full, fair and proper investigation. These are grave allegations and Australians take them seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked about what would happen next, Starmer\u2019s spokesperson said: \u201cWe\u2019re considering whether further steps are required in relation to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and we\u2019re not ruling anything out, but given the ongoing police investigation, it wouldn\u2019t be appropriate for the government to comment further at this stage.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A parliamentary inquiry into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor\u2019s links to Jeffrey Epstein is a matter for MPs, Downing Street has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-442024","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442024","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=442024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}