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Health Minister, Karin Smyth, admits Lord Mandleson has brought “disrepute” to the House of Lords as the police conduct a review of alleged misconduct in a public office. According to reports, Lord Mandelson is accused of passing on sensitive government information to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein Report by Ajagbef. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00This episode, and others in fact, have brought the House of Lords into disrepute.
00:05In our manifesto coming to government we looked at reforming the House of Lords anyway, but
00:10this particular issue of disrepute is an important one.
00:12It goes wider, as your question intimates, than Peter Mandleton and that is why we need
00:17to work very carefully with the political parties to see what the legislation would
00:21do, what the criteria is to make sure that it encompasses all those circumstances.
00:26That's why it needs to be done carefully, that's why we want to work with all the political
00:28parties to bring something forward.
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