00:00Look, the Prime Minister has been clear that process was followed and process was followed.
00:04The issue here is one of state failure, that the process itself is flawed.
00:08And what the last, you know, what the last 24, 48 hours have shone a spotlight on is a flaw
00:13that's existed in the vetting process for years,
00:16whereby departments can simply override what the UK Vettings Agency tells them and then can keep it from ministers.
00:25It's completely unacceptable.
00:26It's right, I'm afraid, that given those decisions that, you know, Ollie Robbins, the permanent secretary, the most senior civil
00:33servant in the Foreign Office, has left his role.
00:36And it's right that we have stopped that, you know, ended that exemption.
00:42But it's extraordinary that that is the process.
00:48And I mean, it really points to a broken process and a failure of the state.
00:53But frankly, people who say he's misled, it's absolutely untrue.
00:57And people who say he, you know, you know, who make, you know, other allegations simply, you know, simply reveal
01:03that they do not understand the process.
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