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Keir Starmer has said Andrew Mounbatten-Windsor should testify before the US Congress about his links to the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Journalists asked the prime minister, who is in Japan for a meeting with its PM, Sanae Takaichi, if the former prince should apologise to the disgraced financier’s victims and give evidence about what he knew of his crimes.
Mounbatten-Windsor, who was stripped of his titles last year amid the fallout from his friendship with the billionaire, features heavily in the latest tranche of Epstein files, released on Friday by the US justice department.
The king’s brother appears to be pictured crouching over a woman who is lying on the floor. The cache of documents also includes emails which indicate Mountbatten-Windsor invited Epstein to Buckingham Palace in September 2010, two years after Epstein was convicted of soliciting girls as young as 14 for sex.
Last year Suhas Subramanyam, a Democratic member of the oversight committee in the House of Representatives, asked Mountbatten-Windsor to sit for a deposition as part of its investigation into how the US government handled the case against Epstein.
Subramanyam said Mountbatten-Windsor “has been hiding from us, and I think he will continue to try to hide from people doing meaningful investigations of this matter”.
Speaking after the release of the latest Epstein files, Starmer said: “Firstly, I have always approached this question with the victims of Epstein in mind. Epstein’s victims have to be the first priority. As for whether there should be an apology, that’s a matter for Andrew.
“But yes, in terms of testifying, I have always said anybody who has got information should be prepared to share that information in whatever form they are asked to do that. You can’t be victim-centred if you’re not prepared to do that.”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/31/keir-starmer-andrew-mountbatten-windsor-testify-us-jeffrey-epstein-links
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