As calls for the former prince to cooperate with police become deafening, this may be the reckoning Andrew cannot outrun

Gordon Brown is a man who gets into the detail.

In office, and since then, he has applied his forensic mind to the matters that concern him. Lately, he has been focused on the Epstein files.

What he discovered shocked him. There was the immediate anger about the “extent of betrayal” by his former business secretary, Peter Mandelson, during the global financial crisis.

But it was the “the abuse of women by male predators and their enablers – and Britain’s as yet unacknowledged role” that has left the deepest mark.