{"id":85494,"date":"2026-02-25T08:32:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85494"},"modified":"2026-02-25T08:32:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:32:43","slug":"mandelsons-lawyers-say-he-was-arrested-over-baseless-claim-he-was-a-flight-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/25\/mandelsons-lawyers-say-he-was-arrested-over-baseless-claim-he-was-a-flight-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandelson&#8217;s lawyers say he was arrested over &#8216;baseless&#8217; claim he was a flight risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/1536\/cpsprodpb\/5be3\/live\/7f0c72e0-11ae-11f1-a8f6-f18f581059b8.jpg\" alt=\"Lord Mandelson leaves his London home, walking behind a police officer wearing a suit, towards a white car with the door open.\" width=\"527\" height=\"296\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Lord Mandelson&#8217;s lawyers have said police officers arrested the former ambassador to the US at his London home on Monday afternoon because they worried he was a flight risk. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c05vey47yddo\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Lord Mandelson&#8217;s lawyers have said police officers arrested the former ambassador to the US at his London home on Monday afternoon because&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-relationships"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Mandelson-arrested.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85495,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85494\/revisions\/85495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}