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The Metropolitan Police has apologised to a second parliamentary Speaker in two days after he was incorrectly named as the person who passed on information about Lord Mandelson, which led to his arrest.
Michael Forsyth, the Lord Speaker of the House of Lords, was named in reports as having warned the police that Lord Mandelson was going to flee to the British Virgin Islands.
It was actually Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the speaker of the House of Commons, who had.
Lord Mandelson was arrested on Monday on suspicion of misconduct in public office, regarding his time as business secretary in Gordon Brown’s cabinet in the 2000s.
He went with police from his home in Camden, north London, at about 4.15pm on Monday to a police station, where he was questioned for eight hours before being released on bail just after 1am.
Lord Mandelson was seen on Thursday for the first time since returning home from his arrest, appearing stony-faced as he left his house just after 1pm and returned at about 4pm.
The former Labour peer denies any wrongdoing.
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It emerged on Tuesday that he was arrested because police had been told he was a flight risk.
However, the wrong Speaker was named as the source of the claim.
After Lord Forsyth was named, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the House of Commons Speaker, told MPs on Wednesday morning it was actually he who had warned the police after he was passed the information while he was on holiday in the British Virgin Islands last week.
The Met apologised to Sir Lindsay on Wednesday, saying it had “inadvertently” revealed information about why Lord Mandelson had been taken into custody.
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