Hello, I'm Susan Hume and this is the Yesterday in Parliament podcast.

On Tuesday, the 24th of February MPs voted to release all of the papers surrounding Andrew

Mountbatten-Winzor's appointment as trade envoy in 2001.

The former Prince Andrew faces allegations of sharing sensitive information

with the convicted sex offender Geoffrey Epstein while in the role.

He was arrested last week on suspicion of misconduct and public office.

He's previously denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein.

Whatever Mr Mountbatten Windsor was used to back in his Prince Andrew days,

deference towards him is now well and truly over.

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor shamed our country and the royal family.

The Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davy.

The debate and vote to trigger the release of all the papers to do with the ex-Princey's appointment as Trade Envoy had been called by the Lib Dems.

But Parliament's rules make it hard to scrutinise royals, even when they're doing a quasi-government job such as Trade Envoy.

And Ed Davy admitted that back in 2011,

when he'd been a coalition minister replying to a critical debate about the then-Prince,

he told the line.

Looking back and knowing what we all know now, I'm horrified by it.

I can't imagine what it must have been like for the survivors and their families

to hear Andrew praise like that as they heard so often all around the world.

So I apologise to them and I'm determined to change things.

He said he now wanted to shine a light on the former prince's behaviour

and how he'd come to get the trade job.

...