BBC Politics26 Feb 2026
Met apologises to Lord Speaker after Mandelson tip-off error
Lord Mandelson's lawyers said police arrested the peer because of a "baseless" suggestion he was planning to move abroad.
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Guido Fawkes26 Feb 2026
Met Police Apologises to Lord Speaker After Mistakenly Naming Him as Mandelson Arrest Tipster
The Met has supplied a formal apology to both parliamentary speakers now. Good to see everything operating at normal in the capital’s police force… Police detectives told lawyers acting for Peter Mandelson that Lord Forsyth – the Speaker of the House of Lords – and Lindsay Hoyle dobbed him in by reporting his intentions to…
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Express Politics26 Feb 2026
Women’s spaces and safety are being compromised in favour of toxic, woke ideology
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Guido Fawkes26 Feb 2026
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Conservative Home26 Feb 2026
Newslinks for Thursday 26th February 2026
Starmer could bow to Badenoch pressure on student loans | PM’s Chagos deal descends into chaos | Police apologise to Speaker for exposing his Mandelson tip-off | PM must quit if we win by-election, say Greens The post Newslinks for Thursday 26th February 2026 appeared first on Conservative Home.
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Sky News Politics25 Feb 2026
Met apologises to Speaker over Mandelson tip-off
The Metropolitan Police has apologised to the Commons Speaker for revealing he was the source of a tip-off relating to the arrest of Lord Mandelson.
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Express Politics25 Feb 2026
Police forced to apologise to Lindsay Hoyle for revealing Lord Mandelson tip-off
The Met has said sorry to the Commons Speaker for "inadvertently revealing information" related to the former Labour grandee's arrest
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The Guardian Politics25 Feb 2026
Role of Scotland’s top law officer questioned after ‘bombshell’ over Peter Murrell charges
Lord advocate Dorothy Bain informed first minister of embezzlement charges against former SNP chief executive a year before they were made public Serious doubts have been raised about the dual role of Scotland’s top law officer after it emerged that the first minister was informed of criminal charges against Peter Murrell nearly a year before they were made public. The lord advocate, Dorothy Bain, who acts as Scotland’s chief prosecutor as well as the government’s principal legal adviser in cabi
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Guido Fawkes25 Feb 2026
Reform’s Matt Goodwin Faces No Fine Over “Inadvertent” Election Rule Breach
Matt Goodwin will not be sanctioned over an “honest administrative error” that saw by-election campaign leaflets printed without a Reform UK imprint – a potential violation of the Representation of the People Act 1983. Following a High Court hearing today, Justice Butcher accepted that the omission “arose from inadvertence, or some other reasonable cause of…
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BBC Politics25 Feb 2026
Commons Speaker passed information to police on Mandelson ahead of arrest
It comes after lawyers for the Labour peer complained about the force's decision to arrest him on Monday.
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The Guardian Politics25 Feb 2026
UK suspension of refugee family reunion scheme to be challenged in high court
Judge allows Safe Passage International to launch judicial review of halting of right to bring in children and partners The Home Office’s controversial decision to suspend the right of refugees to bring their children and partners to the UK is to face a legal challenge in the high court, the Guardian can disclose. Safe Passage International, a charity working with unaccompanied children and refugees, has been granted permission to launch a judicial review of the decision to halt refugee family r
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Conservative Home25 Feb 2026
PMQs Badenoch says Labour is now known as ‘the paedo defenders party’
The Prime Minister faced Kemi Badenoch after his pick for US ambassador was arrested by police over his links to Epstein. The post PMQs Badenoch says Labour is now known as ‘the paedo defenders party’ appeared first on Conservative Home.
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