00:00Setting aside Mandelson's undoubted lies during the vetting process wasn't enough already known about his relationship with Epstein to comprehensively disbar him from such an important job.
00:14It's easy, isn't it, with hindsight, when you do know the truth, to look back at a time when that was not known.
00:21I'm not speaking with hindsight. I'm asking you based on what was already known.
00:25You're not actually letting me answer.
00:26What's the point of asking me a question if I can't answer it?
00:29Because you've misinterpreted my question, sir. The question was this.
00:32No, well, you're not listening to what I'm saying. If I haven't even answered it, how do you know I've misinterpreted it?
00:36Because of your opening statement. You talked about hindsight.
00:39What I was saying was that the information that was in possession of the government and of the Prime Minister,
00:44setting aside Mandelson's lies during the vetting process, wasn't that information sufficient to disbar him from being given such an important job?
00:53Keir Starmer could not have acted more quickly or more decisively.
00:58He phoned him up at 5am and sacked him on the spot.
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