In the House of Commons earlier today, Alex Burghart really had the Prime Minister banged to rights.
And the Prime Minister is the man who said he had confidence in Mandelson in spite of what he knew.
He had confidence in him and he knew. And he admitted he knew to a question sent down to him from the leader of the opposition, Kemi Badenoch.
The Prime Minister, the former Chief Prosecutor is guilty as charged.
He made the decision to appoint Peter Mandelson to be His Majesty’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States, in spite of reading a note provided for him that set out in clear terms that Peter Mandelson had maintained a relationship with Epstein after he had been found guilty of being a paedophile.
What Starmer did was make the decision that it was in the national interest to have Mandelson as ambassador, even though he knew how Mandelson had behaved in relation to Epstein.
And what’s shocking about this is that he comes out and says that his major concern is for the victims, that he was lied to, that he was misled, which is all nonsense.
He thought that Mandelson was a big enough beast, a clever enough charmer, a snake charmer in relation to the United States that he would be worth appointing in spite of his record.
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And the box note was not a complicated or long box note, it wasn’t tucked away on page 402, it was a two-page box note.
I printed out earlier today, and it looked exactly like the hundreds of box notes that get produced for ministers day in, day out that ministers read to see what is going on, to understand what the risks are.
The civil service did its job completely properly, and the Prime Minister made a choice, and his choice was the wrong one. And once he made it, and once he was exposed, everyone tried to run away from it.
There’s the glorious sight in the papers of Jonathan Powell trying to run away from having anything to do with it. He may have had a brief conversation in a corridor, but he couldn’t remember anything to do with what had gone on in any detail.
Convenient amnesia that covers up what people don’t want to admit, and pushing of blame onto McSweeney by everybody and anybody in sight.
It’s the classic behaviour of a court that is rotten to the core, and that is led badly. The Prime Minister is the guilty man and he deserves due sentence.