Gordon Brown says Mandelson's emails to Epstein could constitute a 'crime'

Peter Mandelson's secret email contacts with Jeffrey Epstein while he was in Government could constitute a 'crime' and was 'a betrayal of everything we stand for as a country', former Prime Minister Gordon Brown said. As police continued to search two homes linked to Lord Mandelson over allegations that he leaked government information to the paedophile, an outraged Mr Brown said that emails which appeared to confirm an imminent bailout package for the Euro the day before it was announced in 2010 could have caused 'huge commercial damage'. Mr Brown, who brought Mandelson back into Government as Business Secretary in 2008, said: 'There's no doubt this would be seen as a financial crime if police were investigating it, I see it as a financial crime.'