Labour’s latest ludicrous defence of appointing Peter Mandelson is that if he was fit to be on Times Radio and BBC Newsnight, he was fit to be to be ambassador. Foreign Office minister Stephen Doughty said in the Commons:
“I hardly think that Lord Mandelson would have been one of the leading candidates to become chancellor of Oxford University. Um, but he was. I highly doubt that he would have been offered a job as presenter on Times Radio, but he was. When he appeared on BBC Newsnight, a programme that’s done very important work investigating the crimes of uh…”
Farcical…