A brutal morning round for Nick Thomas-Symonds, who was forced to repeatedly parrot the government’s line that inadequate vetting is to blame for Starmer’s woeful judgement in appointing Mandelson. Even with reams of publicly available material revealing his continued friendship with a convicted paedophile…
He even tried the ‘we should stop talking about this’ excuse for the sake of the victims, telling Sky News:
“The Prime Minister has accepted that he made a mistake in appointing Lord Mandelson… Most importantly, the Prime Minister has apologised about this decision to Jeffrey Epstein’s victims, who have to be re-traumatised and go through the memory of their terrible experiences every time we have a public debate around this.”
He later pointed out on the Today programme that “previous Labour Prime Ministers had also taken a chance on appointing Peter Mandelson“. How’d that work out for them?
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