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Hello, I'm Susan Hume and this is the Today in Parliament podcast for Wednesday the 4th of February.

Coming up, MPs vote for the government to reveal documents showing how Peter Mandelson came to be appointed ambassador

to Washington, despite his

association with Geoffrey Epstein.

The Prime Minister insists

no one had realised the extent of the

relationship. Mandelson lied

throughout the process and beyond

the process. He lied, he lied

and he lied again to my team.

But Kemi Badenock insists the information was not hard to find.

He did know it was on Google.

If the Conservative Research Department could find this information out, why couldn't number 10?

And the Lib Dem leader wonders where sensitive information might have ended up.

The Polish government think Epstein may have been spying for Vladimir Putin.

But first, there was none of the usual heckling or rowdy atmosphere at Prime Minister's

question time, at least not from Labour MPs.

They sat in grim silence, while, as expected, Kemi Badenock tackled Sir Kier Starrmer

over his decision to give Peter Mandelson another top job, despite his association with Geoffrey

Epstein. The opposition leader began by saying everyone was disgusted by the latest revelations.

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