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Senior Labour frontbencher, Douglas Alexander, says that Sir Keir Starmer felt that a "very unconventional President" needed an "unconventional Ambassador" in Washington DC. The Scotland Secretary adds that the Prime Minister "has now accepted that was the wrong appointment" and that he has "made a mistake". Report by Ketchs. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00So the Prime Minister reached a judgment in the round that with a very unconventional president there was a need
00:05for an unconventional ambassador and that given all of Peter Mandels' experience in trade policy he could do a job
00:11for the United Kingdom.
00:12The Prime Minister has now accepted that was the wrong appointment and indeed that he made a mistake and has
00:17apologised as such.
00:18What's an issue today is did the Prime Minister tell the truth and did the Prime Minister willingly and knowingly
00:24mislead Parliament, an allegation made by the Leader of the Opposition that he will firmly refute today.
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