Lord Mandelson allegedly failed to declare two flights paid for by convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein while he was an MP.

The Labour peer did not disclose in the House of Commons register of interests two flights he took at the expense of the disgraced financier, which are worth around £5,555, in 2003.

The flights appear in a cache of documents released earlier this month by the US House of Representatives oversight committee and seen by the Financial Times.

One trip refers to two flights for 'MandelsonPeter', one on April 4, 2003, costing $3,844.90, and the other on April 11 2003, at $3,642.06.

Lord Mandelson failed to declare the flights in the register of interests, which at the time required officials to disclose visits abroad costing more than £564.