‘No one is above the law’: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says before ex-Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest over links to Epstein

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer made it clear that “no one is above the law”, hours before former British prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested by police on suspicion of misconduct in public office, including “sending potentially confidential documents to a convicted sex offender while serving as the UK’s trade envoy”. Jeffrey Epstein.Starmer was responding to a question from the BBC about whether he thought Andrew should voluntarily agree to speak to British police.“I think that is a matter for the police. They will conduct their own investigations but one of the core principles of our system is that everyone is equal before the law and no one is above the law,” he said.He added: “This is a very important principle of our country… and it must apply in this case as it does in any other case.”He even said MPs were free to debate Andrew’s links to sex offender Epstein.The incident is said to have occurred in 2010 at Royal Lodge, Prince Andrew’s former residence. According to the BBC, the woman involved was in her twenties at the time and was not a British citizen. She claimed she was given tea and given a tour of Buckingham Palace after a night with Andrew, according to her lawyer.Police arrested Andrew on suspicion of misconduct in public office. The development marks a major shift in the long-running scrutiny surrounding his past relationships. Thames Valley Police, which polices the area west of London that includes his former home, said they had been reviewing allegations that he shared trade-related information with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2010. Under British law, police usually do not publicly identify suspects when they arrest them. Authorities did not name Mountbatten-Windsor directly but confirmed they had detained a man in his sixties when asked if he had been detained.Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice released millions of documents that shed more light on Andrew’s ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Photos in the latest batch of documents reportedly appear to show him lying on top of a woman lying on the floor, and he is mentioned multiple times in many other documents.