00:00The Prime Minister has today asked the Cabinet Secretary to review all available information
00:04regarding Peter Mandelson's contact with Jeffrey Epstein during his period as a government minister
00:09and to report back to him as a matter of urgency. As the House knows, Peter Mandelson is no longer
00:16a member of the Labour Party, having resigned his membership last night, and the House may
00:22wish to know that disciplinary action was underway by the Labour Party prior to his resignation.
00:27The Prime Minister believes, as does the Government, that Peter Mandelson should not retain his
00:34membership of the House of Lords or use his title. As the House already knows, the Government
00:41does not have the power to remove peerages without legislation. However, the Prime Minister
00:46is calling on all political parties, including the Conservatives as the largest party in the
00:51House of Lords, to work with the Government to modernise the disciplinary procedures to
00:57allow for removal of peers who have brought the House of Lords into disrepute.
01:01These are the various conditions across the family must remain intact. When andées,
01:02came in thess, came in check in at the House of Lords, count the seven, nine, ten
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