00:00A NATO country has just had to defend itself against Russian drones.
00:10Now, more than ever, we need our ambassador to Washington
00:13fully focused on this issue and liaising closely with America.
00:18Does the Prime Minister have full confidence in Peter Mandelson?
00:23Mr Speaker, let me start by saying the victims of Epstein are the forefront of our minds.
00:30He was a despicable criminal who committed the most heinous crimes
00:33and destroyed the lives of so many women and girls.
00:37The ambassador has repeatedly expressed his deep regret for his association with him.
00:42He's right to do so.
00:44I have confidence in him and he's playing an important role in the UK-US relationship.
00:51This is interesting, Mr Speaker.
00:54He says the ambassador has expressed full regret,
00:56but the victims of the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein have called for Lord Mandelson to be sacked.
01:02And just so the House is aware, in 2019,
01:06Jeffrey Epstein was convicted of child prostitution and sex trafficking
01:11that took place between 2002 and 2005.
01:15That is the precise period which Lord Mandelson called Jeffrey Epstein his best pal.
01:20Was the Prime Minister aware of this intimate relationship
01:24when he appointed Lord Mandelson to be our ambassador in Washington?
01:29Mr Speaker, as she and the House would expect,
01:32full due process was followed during this appointment,
01:36as it is with all ambassadors.
01:39The ambassador has repeatedly expressed his deep regret.
01:42He is right to do so.
01:44He's now playing an important part in the US-UK relationship.
01:47Moving on, Mr Speaker, as the leader of the opposition said...
01:53But the primary responsibility for bringing about the future investment,
02:12the use of new technologies and models...
02:15Well, quite a...
02:17I don't remember that.
02:19Thank you, that's calm.
02:24I hope you put this back.
02:28Yes, I hope.
02:38To do with our hands.
02:40Yeah, yeah, so that makes sense, yeah.
02:43Good speech.
02:43Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:44And I sort of took off.
02:46Okay.
02:47I said I was there to talk about jobs, not one or two jobs.
03:05Yes, with proper solidarity too.
03:09And I'm the first to say that the UK.
03:11The point is, did we discuss this collectively, rationally,
03:15at a European level?
03:17Wouldn't it have been better actually, to create a new European manufacturing platform?
03:27If we could have brought about a rationalisation which would have resulted in a pan-European
03:45or, the European another one, to create a new world so that they can create a new human
03:49nation likeшей, the European another, to create a new kingdom.
03:53The European another is one.
03:55We are writing a new book, for people, to get a new story like this.
03:59Now, we're gonna do something for the European world.
04:01We're going to do something for the European world.
04:03We will watch the European world.
04:04We will learn the European world.
04:06We'll do something for both the European world.
04:08We're gonna find the European companies.
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