{"id":3701,"date":"2026-02-24T08:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T08:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=3701"},"modified":"2026-02-24T08:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T08:42:15","slug":"lord-mandelson-released-on-bail-after-arrest-on-suspicion-of-misconduct-in-public-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=3701","title":{"rendered":"Lord Mandelson released on bail after arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Lord Mandelson released on bail after arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office\" width=\"620\" height=\"500\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"w-full object-cover rounded-md\" style=\"color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 620 500'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3C\/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAACEN3D\/AAAAL0lEQVR42mP4z8DAwMiAARgZGJhY+P\/\/PwMDAwPDfwYGBgaGhgYGhgYGAAD9Hwlr5xRngAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg=='\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;)\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.joe.co.uk\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-2261108987.jpg?height=683&amp;width=1024\"\/><!--$--><\/p>\n<p><h2>He was arrested last night<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose drop-cap \">\n<p>Lord Mandelson has been released on bail after being arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office yesterday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>The Met Police released as statement last night after the arrest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>In a statement they wrote: &#8220;Officers have arrested a 72-year-old man on suspicion of misconduct in public office.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>&#8220;He was arrested at an address in Camden on Monday, 23 February and has been taken to a London police station for interview.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>&#8220;This follows search warrants at two addresses in the Wiltshire and Camden areas.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>According to the BBC, Mandelson was led away from his home in Camden, north London, by police. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Now, early this morning, it was confirmed that Mandelson has been released on bail.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>In a statement issued just after 2am on Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police said: \u201cA 72-year-old man arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office has been released on bail pending further investigation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>\u201cHe was arrested at an address in Camden on Monday, 23 February and was taken to a London police station for interview.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>\u201cThis follows search warrants at two addresses in the Wiltshire and Camden areas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>\u201cWe are not able to provide further information at this stage to prevent prejudicing the integrity of the investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>The former ambassador to the US was seen returning to his home at around 2am this morning (Tue, 24 Feb).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Earlier this month, the Metropolitan Police announced that they had launched an investigation over allegations in public office.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>The news comes just days after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formally Prince Andrew, was arrested on suspicion of the same offence. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Neither Andrew or Lord Mandelson have commented so far.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><\/div>\n<p>#Lord #Mandelson #released #bail #arrest #suspicion #misconduct #public #office<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was arrested last night Lord Mandelson has been released on bail after being arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office yesterday. The Met Police released as statement last night after the arrest. In a statement they wrote: &#8220;Officers have arrested a 72-year-old man on suspicion of misconduct in public office. &#8220;He was arrested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3534,3533,3512,3531,2905,3535,923,433,3532,2070,3411,1946,1444],"class_list":{"0":"post-3701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"tag-arrest","9":"tag-bail","10":"tag-lord","11":"tag-lord-mandelson","12":"tag-mandelson","13":"tag-misconduct","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-office","16":"tag-peter-mandelson","17":"tag-public","18":"tag-released","19":"tag-suspicion","20":"tag-uk"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}