Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, The Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Oskaradson. I'm joined today by Tim Shipman and James Heel. Now, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has been released under caution after he was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. It is perhaps the image of the year of him slumped

in the back of the car as he left Norfolk Police Station last night on his 66th birthday

that has splashed all of the morning papers. But Tim, focusing on the politics, there's going to be

a lot of questions asked of Kirstama and the Labour government about this, and famously governments really don't like

talking about the royal family. What problems do you think this is going to throw up for Kirstama?

Oh, well, a huge number of problems, because the police get involved, I think get MPs at some point

wanting to have a say on all this. Traditionally, it's quite difficult to make comments about the royal family in the House of Commons,

but I think a lot of the rules are now being torn up for the artists formerly known as Prince Andrew.

You know, we've already got the first arrest of a member of the royal family for, I think, 600 years.

So none of the sort of existing conventions are really going to hold here. And there's

not just domestic sort of frenzied political interests, but global interest in this. And, you know,

the bottom line is that the guy had a government role. He was a trade envoy for a long time. And we've

already seen from the messages that have been released that

he was not slow to share information with Jeffrey Epstein. He also held a series of other

public facing roles. I mean, technically, he was a senior officer in all three armed forces. So I think

there's a lot here that can be unpicked. And while this might feel for the Starmer government

post Peter Mandelson's defenestration, like the sort of politics is going out of this,

I think the whole establishment is now on edge about what might be revealed by some of the

future releases of the documents pertaining particularly to Mandelson, but also

anything further that emerges about Prince Andrew. This is already a totally and utterly

unprecedented situation. And it's all very embarrassing for the government. It's probably made

slightly easier for them by the fact that the palace is equally keen. It would seem to watch

...