Sir Keir Starmer has urged Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to testify to the US Congress over his links to the late paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Last week, the former prince missed a deadline to respond to an official summons from US officials to appear before the House Oversight Committee, which is looking into how investigations into Epstein were handled.

On 6 November, the committee asked Mountbatten-Windsor to sit for a “transcribed interview” over his “long-standing friendship” with Epstein, who killed himself in 2019.

Democrat Suhas Subramanyam, who sits on the committee, said Andrew “has been hiding from us, and I think he will continue to try to hide from people doing meaningful investigations of this matter”.

Asked whether the royal should appear before Congress, the Prime

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