Met Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Hayley Sewart:
“I can confirm that officers from the Met’s Central Specialist Crime team are in the process of carrying out search warrants at two addresses, one in the Wiltshire area, and another in the Camden area.
The searches are related to an ongoing investigation into misconduct in public office offences, involving a 72-year-old man.
He has not been arrested and enquiries are ongoing.”
Speaking at his press conference on the Pride in Place programme which was obviously all about Mandelson, Starmer said:
“Tomorrow’s front pages are unlikely to be about the Pride in Place programme.”