00:00To learn that there was a cabinet minister leaking sensitive information at the height
00:06of the response to the 2008 crash is beyond infuriating and I am as angry as the public
00:13and any member of this house. Mandelson betrayed our country, our parliament and my party.
00:22Mr Speaker, he lied repeatedly to my team when asked about his relationship with Epstein
00:29before and during his tenure as ambassador. I regret appointing him. If I knew then what
00:37I know now, he would never have been anywhere near government. And that is why, Mr Speaker,
00:43yesterday the cabinet secretary, with my support, took the decision to refer material to the
00:49police and there is now a criminal investigation. I have instructed my team to draft legislation
00:56to strip Mandelson of his title and wider legislation to remove disgraced peers. And this morning
01:04I have agreed with His Majesty the King that Mandelson should be removed from the list of
01:11Privy Councillors on grounds that he has brought the reputation of the Privy Council into disrepute.
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