Hit Lord Mandelson with 'full force of the law,' says Baroness Hazarika voicing fury

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Disgraced Lord Mandelson should face the “full force of the law,” says Baroness Hazarika as she voiced the deep anger among Labour parliamentarians over his conduct.She stressed that he should be “investigated robustly by the police without fear or favour” following the bombshell revelations about his links with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.With Sir Keir Starmer under fire over his appointment of Lord Mandelson as Britain’s ambassador to the US, the Labour peer highlighted an “existential” feeling in the Labour Party as it trails Reform UK in the polls.

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00:00Well we have a criminal justice system and he has to be investigated robustly by the police without fear or favour and if they find that there's a case that has to go and be prosecuted then that needs to be done completely in compliance with the law and of course if it is found that he has broken the law in these ways and this is what the punishment then yes.

00:22I mean I think people are absolutely sucker punched by these revelations that while this country was going through a financial crisis arguably that we are still dealing with the consequences of that you had somebody who was a peer of the realm who was de facto deputy prime minister and he was giving away really confidential information to try and further his own career down the track and potentially enrich himself.

00:52further down the track I think people are absolutely disgusted by that and Peter Mandelson should face a full investigation and face the full force and consequences of that investigation whatever that may be.

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