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Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Alex Burghart has called on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to resign over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador, despite Starmer claiming not to know that Lord Mandelson had failed security vetting.
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00:00I think that the Prime Minister will continue to pretend that he's done nothing wrong, but
00:05in actual fact he's the one who's ultimately responsible. He knew that Peter Mandelson
00:11had been fired twice from jobs, that he had business dealings in China and Russia,
00:16and that he had maintained his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein even after Epstein had
00:20been sent to prison for paedophilia, and he appointed him anyway. So he sent a man who
00:27was a security risk into our most sensitive diplomatic posting. It was his choice, it's on
00:33him, and yet his response has been to fire everybody else. I just don't think this is right.
00:38It's about time the Prime Minister took responsibility. The Prime Minister should
00:41resign because I think he's either been grotesquely incompetent or he has been dishonest, or both.
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