00:00My first reaction when I heard that Peter Mandelson had failed his vetting was,
00:04I asked this, I'm chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee and we had the most senior
00:11civil servants in the country and the person in charge of the Foreign Office in front of the
00:16committee and we asked them, did he fail his vetting? If so, what did you do about it? What
00:21questions were asked? And we were just given the runaround. We were not given proper answers.
00:27I've got it in writing. We wrote to them and we said, did the security services have any concerns
00:33about Peter Mandelson? If so, did he pass his vetting? If he didn't, what did you do about it?
00:39And we just got nonsense. We got essentially, he was vetted, he was appointed. It's not the full
00:47answer. It's like saying to somebody, oh, I had to run to work today, missing out the bit about being
00:53chased by a bear. I mean, it's like, it's not quite lying, but it's not telling the whole truth,
01:00is it? Missing the bit about failing the vetting. So really angry about it.
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