2hago 1314 GT Davey says Epstein tried to use Andrew's trade envoy job 'to enrich himself* Davey gave an example of how Mountbatten-Windsor’s work as a trade envoy helped his friend, Jeffrey Epstein. 44 I'would like to highlight one example of how Jeffrey Epstein sought to use Andrew’s role as trade envoy to enrich himself. Channel 4 uncovered emails in the Epstein files in which Epstein was trying to meet the Libyan dictator Gaddafi in the dying months of the Gaddafi regime, to help him find somewhere to put his money. In other words, Epstein looked at the deadly crisis in Libya and saw a chance to make some money. And he thought his friend Andrew could help. And this is what it says in one of the emails: “I wondered if PA could make the intro.” A few weeks later, Andrew wrote back: “Libya fixed.” Though the Epstein Gaddafi meeting doesn’t appear to have happened, it does show clearly what these relationships were all about. Davey said that the relationships that Andrew and Mandelson had with Epstein were “a stain” on the reputation of the country. “We must begin to clean away that stain with the disinfectant of transparency,” he said. He urged MPs to debate the motion.
Time to take out the trash
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![hago 13.49 GMT
Bryant says Tory ministers and prominent journalists were
defending Andrew in 2011 when warning signs already clear
In a reference to Ed Davey (see 9.06am), Bryant said that there were some
people now saying, with reference to Mountbatten-Windsor, “if only we had
known then what we know now”. He went on:
44 But 'm afraid that with me that doesn’t wash. We did actually have plenty
of warning.
I called on the then prime minister, David Cameron, to dispense with the
services of the then Duke of York in this chamber on 28 February 2011 because
of his close friendship with Saif Gaddafi, as has just been referred to, and [a]
convicted Libyan gun smuggler. I was rebuked by Speaker Bercow then for doing
s0 because references to members of the royal family should be very rare, very
sparing and very respectful.
(Bryant is right to say he was warning about Andrew 15 years ago. I covered
this at the time on the live blog.)
Bryant said he repeatedly called for Andrew to lose his trade envoy job, over
his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and the mysteriously excessive payment
he received for the sale of his home, among other reasons.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5eyzxq6litcyeva7et2xs6yt/bafkreiagboxlnfc2bvuvtky3xa66n2o4cae5rcpvhv2vhmbtcwgpevsg3e)
