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A leading US politician has slammed British authorities for not sharing information from their investigations into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor with America. Republican James Comer,…

A leading US politician has slammed British authorities for not sharing information from their investigations into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor with America. Republican James Comer, chairman of the powerful House Oversight Committee, hit out at police forces across the country who are probing the former prince’s dealings with the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

It comes barely two weeks after the Metropolitan Police referred itself for investigation for purportedly failing to act over a 2019 letter, handed to the Duchess of Sussex, that alleged her father Thomas Markle was a child sex predator. In a new interview, following last week’s latest Epstein report by his committee, Mr Comer also hit out at American authorities, admitting: “The big conclusion – which is a surprise to no-one – is that our government failed the victims and the question we’ve been unable to answer is why.

“The biggest theory would be that he (Epstein) was an asset to our intelligence community or another foreign intelligence community.” He stressed that, in private committee hearings, US agencies including the CIA have flatly denied this.

Mr Comer added: “We were anxiously waiting to see what happened with Britain because remember, when Prince Andrew (sic) was arrested (in February this year), he wasn’t arrested for sex crimes, he was arrested for potential (misconduct in a public office).

“So we were hoping that the United Kingdom would come out with information from their investigation. But that never happened.”

Mr Comer’s sharp criticism of British authorities, on the US cable news show Jessee Watters Tonight, was echoed by the programme’s host, who declared: “We hope there is some information sharing because they say we have a special relationship. It should be more special than that.”

The latest Epstein report from the House Oversight Committee comes almost a year to the day that Mr Comer and his fellow members made a written request to interview – via video and with his lawyer sitting beside…

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