When Andrew met Mandelson

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein has been poured over by the press – but what about their relationship with one another? New Times reporting reveals they met for the first time in 1999 at an NSPCC charity event, and continued a mutually advantageous relationship for a decade. So how do the people who brought them together feel about it now? And what can it tell us about how power works in the upper echelons of British society?

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Guest: Hugo Daniel, general news reporter, The Sunday Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producers: Harry Stott.

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