The Mandelson affair: Revoking honours is easy, upholding standards is harder

Robert Abela’s office announced that proceedings have started to “review and revoke” Lord Peter Mandelson’s National Order of Merit bestowed on him in 2016. How come? Mandelson’s alleged crime is that he leaked market-sensitive government information to Jeffrey Epstein while he was a government minister, almost two decades ago. Mandelson hasn’t been