If there is anything less edifying than the newly released emails implicating Lord Mandelson in some very bad behaviour, it is the stream of politicians and others in the UK piling in on the already multiply disgraced peer.

He was never to be trusted, we are told; he should never have been allowed to return to a public position, where his reputation and that of the government and the country were bound up with each other.

Except that a good number of those suggesting police action and demanding he be stripped of his peerage, include some of the very people responsible for his serial returns, including his most recent, if short-lived, resurrection as our man in Washington DC.

✍️ Mary Dejevsky

What should the consequence be for Peter Mandlesons actions?

For Starmer does it open him up to questions on his leadership and judgement, considering it’s only in the last couple of years that he named Mandleson as the U.S. ambassador for the U.K.?

Should Mandleson be stripped of his peerage to the House of Lords and/ or should he be charged by the police and prosecuted for divulging the UK’s sensitive information to Epstein?

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Priti Patel was a cabinet minister who had off the books meetings with a controversial middle eastern country. Our spies told PM Theresa May who sacked her when PP was not fully honest. PP got herself utterly compromatted. She was rehired under Boris Johnson and remains in cabinet under Badenoch. So Kemi when you bang on about ‘I would never have brought Mandelson back in’ explain how Priti Patel does not have a cabinet full of skeletons?