The European Commission has tasked the bloc’s anti-fraud agency – Olaf – to investigate Peter Mandelson’s activities while British commissioner for trade from 2004-2008. It just keeps getting worse…
The Commission told the FT: “Given the circumstances, and the significant amount of documents made available publicly, the European Commission . . . asked OLAF on 18 February to look into the matter… As new documents were published recently, we are looking into these and assessing whether there is any breach of the respective obligations.” That’s another win for Nigel Farage who wrote to Olaf this month asking for a probe into Mandelson…
Lucy Powell on LBC, asked by Tom Swarbrick for her reaction to Labour MP Samantha Niblett’s call for a ‘summer of sex’ debate in Parliament: “I personally don’t own any sex toys, but each to their own… I’m not really sure that’s the right place for it, no.”