US justice department blocking Met police investigation into Mandelson, reports say – UK politics live

The department of justice has refused to hand over key evidence from the Jeffrey Epstein files and could delay Scotland Yard’s criminal inquiry.Back in the Lords, Conservative former deputy prime minister Therese Coffey said she thought some MPs and peers were more interested in passing an unsafe assisted dying bill than introducing proper safeguards.Representing the view of opponents of assisted dying, Coffey said: “The continuing claim that this bill is the safest in the world, and was largely good to go in the house, perhaps with a few tweaks, just does not hold true.” Continue reading...