House of Commons votes yes
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House of Commons votes yes to releasing documents about former Prince Andrew

The House of Commons in the UK has voted to release documents related to former Prince Andrew's time as a trade envoy.

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The approval was by acclamation. It is unclear when the documents might be made public.

In many ways this is the first truly global scandal, from the White House and Silicon Valley to Oslo and Paris, but it is also a deeply British scandal that reaches right up to the top of the British establishment, said Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats who put forward the proposal, in the debate.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the brother of King Charles, is being investigated for misconduct in public office. He is suspected of passing potentially classified information to the now-deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein while Mountbatten-Windsor was Britain's trade envoy.

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