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Less than 48 hours after Peter Mandelson resigned from the Labour Party, we are now hearing the breaking news that the Cabinet office has referred new evidence

about Mandelson directly to the police. We've now learned that Peter Mandelson is to step down

from his position in the House of Lords. But that won't change the facts. The constant flow of

information between Mandelson and Epstein concerning government

secrets 15 years ago. Could this yet prove to be the biggest corruption scandal in Britain

for over 50 years? Welcome to the newsagents.

The newsagents.

It's Emily. It's Lewis. And the latest news, as we were saying there,

is that Kirstama has handed police a dossier about Lord Mandelson,

allegedly leaking highly sensitive information on the economy to Geoffrey Epstein. This follows the news yesterday that the police, the Metropolitan Police, were looking into this. The Cabinet office has

apparently found unredacted versions of emails from the then business secretary, Lord

Manelson was business secretary in the late 2000s under Gordon Brown, to Jeffrey Epstein, the paedophile financier, and

passed them to the police this morning. Kirstama apparently telling his cabinet that the leaks

were, quote, gobsmacking and has asked officials, as Emily was saying, to draw up legislation

to remove Manelson's peerage as soon as possible. This following on, from the

emails as we were reporting yesterday, an almost stream of consciousness from Mandelson to Epstein

when he was the de facto deputy prime minister, among other things, sending Epstein a confidential

UK government document outlining 20 billion

of asset sales, Mandelson claiming he was trying hard, partly at Epstein's instigation, to change

government policy on bankers' bonuses, and telling him about an imminent bailout package for the

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