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Alice Campbell and me, Rory Stewart.

Now, Rory and I were hoping to have a nice quiet day today. And we're going to have a nice

quiet day because we've got, well, no, we've got other things on. But I think we have to say

something about what's been going on overnight regarding the seemingly never-ending saga

of Kier Starrmer's appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States.

So Peter Mandelson was appointed, then had to resign over his links with Jeffrey Epstein,

about which Keir Stammer claimed not to know the full detail, then the launch of a process,

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