What a pratt , he's certainly a chip off the old block , his dads a pratt as well , I admired him for his role in the Falklands , but now he is
HERO TO ZERO ,wtf is wrong with his thinking , lay with dogs ya get fleas .
The Duke of York will have to judge whether he should carry on as UK trade envoy amid continued controversy over his ties to a convicted paedophile, a senior minister has suggested.
Business Secretary Vince Cable said "conversations" would be taking place with Prince Andrew over his future role.
"He is a volunteer, he has offered to perform these roles, and I think it is down to him essentially to judge the position he wants to be in," Mr Cable told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.
"Obviously there are conversations that will take place with him about what he is to do in future. That is simply a matter of managing the relationship."
Fresh doubts have been raised about Andrew's position as the UK's Special Representative for International Trade and Investment in the wake of further media coverage over the weekend about his links with American billionaire Jeffrey Epstein.
Mr Cable, who as President of the Board of Trade is responsible for trade promotion, stressed that it was not up to ministers to drop the Duke. "He is not a Government employee. He is not somebody who is appointed and sacked," he said.
He added that he had no criticism of the way Andrew had carried out his responsibilities as trade envoy and that business had found him "supportive and helpful".
However, Labour former Foreign Office minister Chris Bryant told the Today programme: "I think we should be dispensing with his services. I think the charge list now against him is so long that he is a bit of an embarrassment."
Andrew has known Epstein, 58, since the early 1990s, and met him as recently as December in New York. The financier was accused of sex offences by a number of under-age girls and sentenced to 18 months in prison in 2008 for soliciting a minor for prostitution.
His private secretary, Alastair Watson, in a letter published in the Times newspaper last week, said: "The Duke has known Mr Epstein since being introduced to him in the early 1990s. The insinuations and innuendos that have been made in relation to the Duke are without foundation."
HERO TO ZERO ,wtf is wrong with his thinking , lay with dogs ya get fleas .
The Duke of York will have to judge whether he should carry on as UK trade envoy amid continued controversy over his ties to a convicted paedophile, a senior minister has suggested.
Business Secretary Vince Cable said "conversations" would be taking place with Prince Andrew over his future role.
"He is a volunteer, he has offered to perform these roles, and I think it is down to him essentially to judge the position he wants to be in," Mr Cable told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.
"Obviously there are conversations that will take place with him about what he is to do in future. That is simply a matter of managing the relationship."
Fresh doubts have been raised about Andrew's position as the UK's Special Representative for International Trade and Investment in the wake of further media coverage over the weekend about his links with American billionaire Jeffrey Epstein.
Mr Cable, who as President of the Board of Trade is responsible for trade promotion, stressed that it was not up to ministers to drop the Duke. "He is not a Government employee. He is not somebody who is appointed and sacked," he said.
He added that he had no criticism of the way Andrew had carried out his responsibilities as trade envoy and that business had found him "supportive and helpful".
However, Labour former Foreign Office minister Chris Bryant told the Today programme: "I think we should be dispensing with his services. I think the charge list now against him is so long that he is a bit of an embarrassment."
Andrew has known Epstein, 58, since the early 1990s, and met him as recently as December in New York. The financier was accused of sex offences by a number of under-age girls and sentenced to 18 months in prison in 2008 for soliciting a minor for prostitution.
His private secretary, Alastair Watson, in a letter published in the Times newspaper last week, said: "The Duke has known Mr Epstein since being introduced to him in the early 1990s. The insinuations and innuendos that have been made in relation to the Duke are without foundation."
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