A minister attacked 'rude, arrogant and entitled' Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor today as the government bowed to demands for the release of papers about his time as UK trade envoy. Mr Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested last week after the US Epstein files were released, including messages purporting to show he shared confidential UK government documents with the billionaire child abuser. Taking advantage of the ruling, Sir Chris reminded the House that he had called for Mr Mountbatten-Windsor to be sacked as trade envoy more than a decade ago. But earlier Sir Ed was embarrassingly confronted over having praised then-prince Andrew's performance as trade envoy while a minister in the Coalition. Any independent inquiry would be designed to establish the facts of Andrew's links with Epstein, as well as the wider issues or failures in his position as trade envoy.

Source: Daily Mail February 24, 2026 15:02 UTC