Criminal investigation into Mandelson | Cancer survival rate to increase
Cheat Sheet with Ridge & Frost
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🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
A criminal investigation has been launched into allegations of misconduct in public office offences by Peter Mandelson. This comes as the Tories want documents relating to his appointment as ambassador to be published.
Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has moved out of Royal Lodge, according to palace sources, as police assess claims that a woman was sent to the former duke by Jeffrey Epstein in 2010.
The son of Norway's crown princess is expected to give evidence for the first time in court today as he stands accused of four charges of rape.
The ex-husband of former First Lady of the United States Jill Biden has been charged with murdering his current wife.
And finally, the government will publish the national cancer plan today, which will pledge that 75% of patients diagnosed from 2035 will be cancer-free or living well after five years. This figure currently stands at 60%.
Sophy and Wilf have the day's news in just 10 minutes.
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| 0:46.8 | The Good News. The Full Story First Police have launched a criminal investigation into allegations around Peter Mandelson. |
| 0:51.7 | Meanwhile, the Conservatives want documents relating to his appointment as ambassador to be published. |
| 0:56.8 | Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has moved to Sandringham as police assess a claim against him. |
| 1:03.1 | Hello, you are listening to Cheat Sheet. It is Wednesday the 4th of February. I'm Seafy Rich. |
| 1:09.1 | And I'm Wilfrid Fross. Also today, the government says more people will survive cancer under its new 10-year plan. |
| 1:13.0 | We will once again be talking about individuals mentioned in the Epstein files and a reminder that simply being mentioned in the files doesn't make |
| 1:18.1 | you guilty of any crime. So focusing on Law Mandelson, first of all, Sophie, two big developments |
| 1:25.7 | yesterday. One is that the police have announced a criminal investigation |
| 1:29.9 | into allegations of misconduct in public office against him from when he was business secretary |
| 1:34.5 | in the Gordon Brown government. The other is that the conservatives are going to use this |
| 1:39.4 | parliamentary term, an opposition day humble address motion motion to try and get the government to reveal |
| 1:47.5 | the advice they received before they appointed him as ambassador. Shout out to Sam Coates and |
| 1:52.9 | politics at Sam and Ans for breaking that first this time yesterday. Break it down for us. |
| 1:57.8 | Yeah, there's two quite separate things going on, as you say, Wolf. |
| 2:01.0 | The first is the police investigation. |
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