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Leader of the Opposition Kemi Badenoch calls for the government to release "all of the papers" involved in the "vetting or non-vetting" of Lord Peter Mandelson before he was appointed as US ambassador. Badenoch claims that "normal procedures" were "waved away" so that the Prime Minister could appoint Mandelson, who has been linked to the late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Report by Keechl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Ken Behnok, what exactly are you asking the government to release tomorrow?
00:04So how Peter Mandelson got appointed is critical.
00:09We need to know what went on with the vetting.
00:12So what we're going to do is use a rare parliamentary mechanism called a humble address,
00:17which is to force the government to release all of the papers that explain how this vetting,
00:24or non-vetting as we believe, took place.
00:26What I believe is that the normal procedures were waved away so that the prime minister could appoint a man
00:33who had such a close association with a convicted paedophile, well known, and he still went ahead and did this.
00:40What vetting was done?
00:41Let's see all of the correspondence, emails, mobile phone records.
00:45We want to see everything.
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