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Hello, I'm Susan Hume, and this is the Today in Parliament podcast for Monday the 2nd of February.

Coming up, there are calls for action following the latest allegations about Peter

Mandelson's contacts with Geoffrey Epstein.

Surely this is not a matter of whether Peter Mandel should be in the House of Lords.

This is a matter of whether the police should be involved.

Also tonight, the Prime Minister tells MPs why he was right to go to China.

Like our allies, we understand that engagement makes us stronger.

A conservative backs the government's plan to make it harder for migrants to settle here.

If we fail to deal with this crisis, we'll draw ever more people onto a path that starts with anger and ends with hatred.

And a former turned MP criticises government rules and regulations on the environment.

I find it very hard to follow your homunculus-like rulebook which changes like the weather.

But first, there's been a chorus of calls from MPs across the Commons for the police to investigate

claims that Peter Mandelson, while a cabinet minister,

leaked sensitive government information to the convicted sex offender Geoffrey Epstein.

Scotland Yard has said this evening that it's reviewing reports of alleged misconduct in public office.

Following the release of millions of documents by the US authorities on Friday, emails have come to light

suggesting that when he was business secretary in Gordon Brown's government, he passed information

that could be of use to Geoffrey Epstein as a financier. Lord Mandelson, who had to resign last year

as the UK ambassador to Washington over his relationship with Epstein

has been approached for comment. He's resigned from the Labour Party. When the Prime Minister

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