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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer did "mislead Parliament" over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as US Ambassador says the Conservative's Shadow Housing Secretary Kevin Hollinrake. His comments follow a vote in which MPs rejected calls for the PM to face a parliamentary probe into whether he misled the commons over Mandelson's security checks.
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00:00He said all the way through that full due process was carried out, that's clearly not been the case.
00:05He said that the Home Office wasn't, or the Foreign Office, sorry, wasn't under pressure.
00:10Clearly the evidence before the Select Committee is contradictory to that.
00:16So I don't think this information would have come out without the work of Kemi Beardnock and the Conservatives.
00:22It's quite clear. She first raised this in Parliament in September last year,
00:26which led to Peter Mandelson being sacked and the information around that
00:32and the situation that led up to his appointment and his dismissal still hasn't come to light.
00:39That information still hasn't been brought before Parliament and Parliament voted for that information to be released.
00:45So these are important matters, having integrity at the top of government
00:49and crucially having a leader that the country believes in is very, very important
00:54and that's not where we are right now.
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