{"id":443132,"date":"2026-02-24T14:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/443132\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T14:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:55:07","slug":"andrew-rude-arrogant-and-entitled-minister-says-as-government-backs-release-of-trade-role-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/443132\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew &#8216;rude, arrogant and entitled&#8217;, minister says as government backs release of trade role files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bryant presses Davey on previous comments about Andrew&#8217;s trade rolepublished at 13:39 GMT<\/p>\n<p>13:39 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bryant then addresses Liberal Democrats leader Ed Davey, who introduced the motion to the Commons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He mentions Davey&#8217;s comments during a parliamentary debate in 2011, where he said Andrew was doing an &#8220;excellent job&#8221; as trade envoy and dismissed concerns around him at the time as &#8220;innuendo&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking in the Commons, Bryant says: &#8220;I think if he had followed the debates in the public domain at the time, he would have known better than to have made those comments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Davey responds: &#8220;The minister knows that I apologise for that comment, taking the brief from someone else, I really wish I hadn&#8217;t said those words, because I&#8217;m thinking about the victims.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier on BBC Radio 4&#8217;s Today programme, Davey was similarly asked about his defence of Andrew during the 2011 debate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During that interview, Davey said he regretted those comments and that &#8220;no MP mentioned Epstein in that debate and I think that tells a tale about how Parliament and MPs don&#8217;t hold the Royal Family, didn&#8217;t hold [the former] Prince Andrew in that really privileged position, properly to account&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryant presses Davey on previous comments about Andrew&#8217;s trade rolepublished at 13:39 GMT 13:39 GMT Bryant then addresses&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-443132","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\/443132","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=443132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}