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Conservative Party Chairman Kevin Hollinrake says Peter Mandelson's appointment as US ambassador despite his links to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein "calls into question Keir Starmer's judgement. 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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00:00Well, this is a big day for us today, so we've put together a parliamentary procedure called the Humble Address,
00:06which means that Parliament will have to vote on whether to release the information connected to this scandal,
00:12and it will reveal everything that Keir Starmer knew at the time he appointed Peter Mandelson to the ambassador to the US,
00:20one of the top jobs in politics, and a lot of people really were surprised by that move back then
00:27and criticised it because Mandelson has resigned twice from the Cabinet because of scandals.
00:33It was clear he knew Epstein, a convicted paedophile, before he was appointed as ambassador,
00:39so really this calls into question Keir Starmer's judgement.
00:43So what we want to do is make sure all the information that was there before Keir Starmer when he made this appointment is revealed,
00:51and then I think that might tell us a lot about why he was appointed in the first place,
00:56but it tells us an awful lot about Keir Starmer's judgement generally.
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