Officers have raided Lord Mandelson’s homes as part of their probe into the disgraced Labour peer.

The UK’s former ambassador to the US is being investigated by the Metropolitan Police for misconduct in public office offences.

In a statement issued yesterday (FRI), deputy assistant commissioner Hayley Sewart said: "I can confirm that officers from the Met’s Central Specialist Crime team are in the process of carrying out search warrants at two addresses, one in the Wiltshire area, and another in the Camden area.

"The searches are related to an ongoing investigation into misconduct in public office offences, involving a 72-year-old man. He has not been arrested and enquiries are ongoing.”

Mr Mandelson has been understood to have been living at a rented farm in Wiltshire for the last few years with his husband Reinaldo Avila da Silva.

Officers from The Metropolitan Police are expected to grill Mandelson within days as part of their probe into the former Government spinner.

Mandelson has been accused of leaking sensitive information to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein while he was Business Secretary under Gordon Brown.

The criminal probe into Mandelson has so far barred the release of documents which Sir Keir believes will exonerate him.

The PM sparked intense fury on Wednesday when he confirmed to the Commons that he appointed Mandelson to be the UK’s ambassador to the US despite knowing that the Labour peer’s relationship with Epstein continued after his conviction.

Sir Keir “needs a miracle” to save his premiership, a Labour MP has warned amid the Mandelson scandal.

The Prime Minister’s backbenchers continued their attacks on the Labour leader who survived his most bruising week in the job.

Labour MP Ian Byrne said “the red flags were there” at the time of Mandelson’s appointment, saying “it was well-known what he was”.

Speaking to Sky News, the left-winger said Keir Starmer “needs a miracle” to save his premiership.

He said: “I’m sure he is angry because I’d be angry if I was him. However, he should have listened to the people who were flagging up that this was a catastrophic appointment.

And he didn’t. And that’s why we are here today.”

Mr Byrne said that the Prime Minister needs to “look at the consequences of his actions,” adding: “What he’s enabled by putting Mandelson in that job… and that may come out, we don’t know what he’s done while he’s been in there.”

Fellow Labour backbencher Neil Duncan-Jordan MP said yesterday (FRI) that Sir Keir should resign and called for a “renewal” of the party.

Speaking to BBC News, he said: “We can’t just keep going on like this - lurching from one crisis to the next.”

He added that he wishes to see a “renewal of the Labour party” to restart its “offer to the British public”.