The Guardian | Gordon Brown says he queried Andrew’s ‘unacceptable costs’ as trade envoy by Rowena Mason Whitehall editor AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. Gordon Brown revealed that in 2008 he ordered a colleague in the business department to question Prince Andrew — Andrew Mountbatten‑Windsor — about “unacceptable costs” incurred while serving as a UK trade envoy, and he now urges police to widen their probe to include the prince’s use of public money. Brown noted that Prince Andrew regularly travelled on RAF flights and had asked for a separate fleet of government‑funded aircraft, a request the former chancellor rejected and reported to the queen. After Prince Andrew’s February arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office amid investigations into his dealings with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Brown called for officials from the Ministry of Defence, the Department for Business and Trade and the Foreign Office to be interviewed and their records examined, and for a parliamentary select committee to assess whether public funds were misused for private or illicit purposes. Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/29/gordon-brown-andrew-mountbatten-windsor-costs-public-funds #GordonBrown #PrinceAndrew #JeffreyEpstein #RAF #DefenceMinistry #AndrewMountbatten_Windsor