DAN HODGES: I've long warned the Mandelson affair was descending into a cover-up. Today we finally see why...
For months, I and other journalists have been warning that the Peter Mandelson scandal was descending into a cover-up.
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For months, I and other journalists have been warning that the Peter Mandelson scandal was descending into a cover-up.
Messages between the disgraced former ambassador to the US and Sir Keir Starmer's one-time chief of staff Morgan McSweeney were expected to be released.
Messages were expected to appear in the batch of Mandelson files, published earlier this week, but did not.
The Mandelson furore has been reignited after the emergence of embarrassing WhatsApps from Darren Jones - which were not included in this week's huge data dump.
Darren Jones told the disgraced peer he was 'so sorry' he had been forced out over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein .
Darren Jonesโs messages include requests for advice on the reshuffle and remarks about former business secretary Jonathan Reynolds The prime minsterโs close ally Darren Jones sent his commiserations to Peter Mandelson after he was sacked as US ambassador in messages that were not disclosed as part of the humble address release. Jonesโs texts also included requests for advice on the reshuffle and disobliging comments about the then business secretary Jonathan Reynolds and the influence of trade unions. Continue reading...
In a dramatic intervention, MPs heard a statement from US survivor Lisa Phillips, in which she said the PM had failed to listen to those who suffered at Epstein's hands.
File detailing security mitigations is among those withheld at the request of the Metropolitan police Ministers have faced renewed cross-party pressure in parliament over documents missing from a 1,500-page release of papers about Peter Mandelsonโs appointment as ambassador to Washington. Despite the volume of information published on Monday, crucial documents were withheld at the request of the Metropolitan police on the grounds that they could โpotentially prejudiceโ an investigation. They include a document summarising the vetting process, which concluded with officials recommending Mandelson not be given security clearance. Continue reading...
Keir Starmer will run the gauntlet of PMQs amid fury at a swathe of missing evidence about his disastrous US ambassador pick.
The latest document dump of the Mandelson files is full of delicious scuttlebutt and juicy insider gossip which embarrasses the Government even if there is nothing particularly game-changing in them.
In an extraordinary admission, No 10 revealed that the Prime Minister uses the 'disappearing messages' function on his phone, despite Labour condemning the practice in opposition.
A batch of messages between ministers and Lord Mandelson were published on Monday - but there were only a few from the prime minister.
Lord Doyle could be seen sitting on the back row of the red benches on Monday, the day Westminster was once again enveloped by the Lord Mandelson scandal.
A second batch of files relating to Lord Mandelson's appointment as US ambassador has been released.
Britain's former US ambassador founded lobbyist that represented spy-tech firm, saw it win big roles in UK defense, health tech
Nick Thomas-Symonds says messages between Pat McFadden and Peter Mandelson are โembarrassingโ UK politics live โ latest updates Labour MPs are not looking to raise taxes to fund more benefits, the cabinet minister Nick Thomas-Symonds has said. In messages between the work and pensions secretary, Pat McFadden, and Peter Mandelson released on Monday, McFadden wrote: โEvery meeting I have is: โWho can we tax in order to pay benefits to others?โ Theyโre asking the wrong questions.โ Continue reading...
Shadow Cabinet Office minister Alex Burghart says it โbeggars beliefโ there were not more exchanges between Mandelson and the PM Good morning. Keir Starmer is chairing cabinet today as Labour MPs mull over the coverage of the Peter Mandelson files. In terms of revelations relating to Mandelson himself, the impact is probably not as bad as many MPs feared; Politico quotes one official as saying the mood last night was at the โtop endโ of expectations. Here is our main story about the data release, by Henry Dyer and Pippa Crear. There will be more coverage today. Thereโs a lot of stuff thatโs missing. Anybody whoโs looked at these 1,500 pages will see acres and acres of white space, these constellations of asterisks, huge amounts of redactions. Now, some of that is fine because itโs national security issues, our relationship with the Americans. It beggars belief that there were so few exchanges between Mandelson and the prime minister. Thereโs almost nothing in the record. So either this stuff is being deliberately withheld or itโs been deleted. Continue reading...
Keir Starmer will gather ministers in Downing Street amid the fallout from 1,500 pages of evidence about Mandelson's disastrous appointment as US ambassador.
In todayโs newsletter: Its software is used from health services to militaries. But controversies and criticism of the $375bn company are leading some to ask if Palantir is too powerful Good morning. The Peter Mandelson story keeps unfolding. Peter Walker explains here what is in the latest release of documents, and Henry Dyer takes a look at the key papers missing from the latest disclosures. But today we are covering another major story โ Palantir. Few companies attract controversy more than Palantir. Since the pandemic, the US data analytics company has grown voraciously, using its AI-driven software to make sense of intractable datasets for customers around the world. For the NHS, it analyses patient records; for the US military, itโs focused on targets in Iran. Palantirโs products are widely used, with the business now worth $375bn. UK politics | Peter Mandelson was receiving sensitive security briefings about the Foreign Officeโs work, and was in discussions with the head of MI6, before he had completed the developed vetting process, documents reveal. Ukraine | Russian air raids on major Ukrainian centres including Kyiv, Dnipro and Kharkiv killed at least five people and wounded dozens by early morning on Tuesday, authorities said. Environment | More than a million jobs, higher wages, nearly half a trillion pounds in investment in the pipeline โ the UKโs green economy is powering ahead, according to research by the countryโs leading business organisation. US news | Donald Trump is reconsidering whether to keep pressing for a $1.8bn fund to compensate his allies, a person familiar with his thinking said, as the justice department paused the program to comply with a court order. UK news | Sir Alan Bates has said that the schemes set up to compensate post office operators over the Horizon IT scandal have been an โutter disasterโ and that the government should not be involved in running them. Continue reading...
As Keir Starmer and Downing Street dodged and deflected, it became increasingly clear they had no intention of letting the British people see the truth of what was contained within the Mandelson files.