Gordon Brown turns detective over Andrew
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4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Today, we discuss a report in the Sunday Telegraph that Gordon Brown has demanded a police investigation into whether Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor used taxpayer-funded jets and RAF bases to meet the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The former PM says he’s sent a five-page memorandum to the Metropolitan, Surrey, Sussex Thames Valley and other UK police constabularies.
Laura and Paddy are joined by Henry Zeffman to discuss why he’s turned investigator, what it means for the Royal Family, and whether rules around the line of succession should be changed.
Ahead of the Government’s Schools White Paper on Monday, we also discuss some of Labour’s proposed changes to special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) support, as well as Kemi Badenoch’s vow to lower interest on some student loans which she says feel "increasingly feel like a scam".
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The presenters were Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O’Connell. It was made by Chris Flynn with Kris Jalowiecki. The social producer was Grace Braddock. The technical producer was Hannah Montgomery. The weekend series producer is Chris Flynn. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:08.8 | I know, I'm very sad about that. |
| 0:10.1 | That is an amazing achievement. |
| 0:11.4 | Hello, that's an amazing achievement. |
| 0:12.8 | It is an amazing achievement. |
| 0:14.3 | But as I said yesterday, I love their wee faces and the wee faces. |
| 0:17.2 | We're sad. |
| 0:18.0 | Yes, Canada got the gold. |
| 0:20.4 | However, it's an amazing achievement. It is. And who knows what will happen in four years? And with all this attention and love to curling and Stranra on around the place. And you had some of the people from Stranran around your programme. Did you know? Well, we actually ended up being astonished by Lys Doucette, who was in to talk us about Iran. |
| 0:39.3 | She is a curler and she's Canadian. |
| 0:45.1 | Bruce Moat went into this final with being regarded as possibly the best shot maker in men's professional curly in the world. Team G.B. went in as the team to beat. It was breathtakingly |
| 0:52.0 | close, but it's just millimeters that if you hit the rock in one place and not in another, it makes all the... I was just... I'm pointing my finger of suspicion. I couldn't stop her. Least you said it's a curler. She is. Well, I'm going to stop you because we need to get on with today's newscast when we're going to be talking about Andrew Mountbatten |
| 1:11.0 | Windsor. We're going to be talking about special educational needs for kids and the government's |
| 1:16.3 | new plans. And we are going to talk about the creaking system of student finance. One of our |
| 1:21.9 | viewers said that the government was behaving like a loan shark. So we'll talk about all of that |
| 1:26.3 | on this Sunday's newscast. Newscast from the BBC. Fat boy sliver me in the classroom doing our violin lessons. I was the tattle tail in the class. Got I have an apology, please. I trust almost nobody. That daddy has to sometimes do strong language. Next time in Moscow. I feel delulu with no salulu. Take me down to Downey Street. |
| 1:45.1 | Let's go have a tour. |
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| 1:48.7 | Hello, it's Laura in the studio. |
| 1:49.9 | Hello, it's Paddy in the studio. |
| 1:51.6 | And hello, it's Henry at home. |
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