\n The disgraced peer was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office on Monday, February 23, amid an ongoing Metropolitan Police investigation.\n<\/p>\n
\n His home in the Pewsey Vale, near Wilcot, had been searched extensively by police prior to this arrest after further revelations about Mandelson\u2019s links to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein during his time as business secretary.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Telegraph has since reported that Mandelson could be forced to leave this home as he looks to \u201ccut his outgoings.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n The publication understands that he is considering handing back the keys to the rented property and has not been seen there for weeks.\n<\/p>\n
\n It is understood that Mandelson rents the farmhouse from Lord Rothschild, the multi-millionaire financier, and has done so since 2014.\n<\/p>\n
\n Police at the home of Peter Mandelson in Wiltshire (Image: Ben Birchall)\n<\/p>\n
\n He also owns a four-storey townhouse near Regent\u2019s Park in London.\n<\/p>\n
\n In January Mandelson was photographed at his Wiltshire home, which he shares with his husband Reinaldo Avila da Silva, for an interview with The Times.\n<\/p>\n
\n Claims that he is leaving the property have been repeated in a recent Daily Mail column by Andrew Pierce, who said Mandelson would be \u201cheartbroken\u201d by the development.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: \u201cSince being sacked as British ambassador in Washington in September, Lord Mandelson has rarely been seen at his farmhouse.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cBut I hear the next time he will be at the property in Pewsey Vale, Wiltshire, it will be with his packing cases.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s understood he\u2019s leaving the home \u2013 owned by Nat Rothschild, a scion of the grandest banking family \u2013 this month.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cNow employing lawyers from three blue-chip law firms, it seems Mandelson can no longer afford the rent, believed to be around \u00a34,000 a month.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cMandelson, who loved escaping London for the country with his border collie Jock, will be heartbroken to leave.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Mandelson was released on bail following his arrest in February.\n<\/p>\n
\n In a statement issued just after 2am on Tuesday, February 24, a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police said: \u201cA 72-year-old man arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office has been released on bail pending further investigation.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cHe was arrested at an address in Camden on Monday, February 23, and was taken to a London police station for interview.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThis follows search warrants at two addresses in the\u00a0Wiltshire\u00a0and Camden areas.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe are not able to provide further information at this stage to prevent prejudicing the integrity of the investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The disgraced peer was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office on Monday, February 23, amid an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-454698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454698","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=454698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}