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Conservative MP Kevin Hollinrake has accused Labour of wanting to "cover up" rather than reveal the full truth as a second batch of Mandelson files is set to be released today. The documents relate to Peter Mandelson's appointment as UK ambassador to the US and his links to Jeffrey Epstein. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said he did not know the full extent of the information when he made the appointment.
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00:00There's a thousand pages of documents which have only been released because of
00:04Kimmy Bairdnock, what she did in Prime Minister's questions in September last year, forcing
00:09the Prime Minister to admit what he knew about Mandelson when he made the appointment, that
00:14in fact he knew they had ongoing association with a convicted paedophile, it's completely
00:18disgraceful. And because of that of course these documents have been released. So yes
00:23we'll learn a lot more about that, but we are more concerned about what we don't hear.
00:28And according to what happened in Parliament, the Government is supposed to release everything,
00:33anything sensitive goes to the Joint Intelligence and Security Committee, they can decide what
00:38gets released and what gets redacted. We don't believe that process has been followed, indeed
00:43one of the members of that committee, Jeremy Wright, a Conservative colleague, has said exactly
00:47that in Parliament a couple of weeks ago. So we're concerned whether we will see the full
00:51truth, the Labour Government seem to be engaged in more cover up than making a clean breast of
00:57everything, and we think that's totally wrong.
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