In 2009, he was business secretary.

He’s previously spoken about ‘regretting’ his association with the late paedophile.

Further communications have emerged in newly-released documents.

In them, Lord Mandelson emails the disgraced businessman: ‘You are the only person who knows everything about me, don’t go away’.

Sir Ed Davey’s the Lib Dem leader and MP for Kingston and Surbiton: