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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Patrick Gibbons and today I'm joined by our political editor, Tim Shipman.

Now, Tim, this week, The Gift That Keeps on Giving,

the latest tranche of messages related to Peter Mendelssohn's vetting to be UK ambassador to the US

were released on Monday. And in the magazine this week, out today, you have a bit of a scoop.

Can you tell us a bit more about it? Well, these are some of the messages that didn't make it

into that public disclosure. It was supposed to be the case that pretty well everything between

the Prime Minister and members of the Cabinet and Mandelson would at least have been scrutinised, potentially redacted, but if there was anything

security sensitive in there, but quite a lot of these messages don't appear to exist anymore.

And as Darren Jones, the minister, I describe him in this piece as the Valter Modell of the government,

who was, those of your listeners with a military bent, remember he was the furious fireman, sent him to deal with any

sort of collapsing situation. And dear old Darren Jones was sort of wheeled out on Monday and, you

know, it was forced to tell MPs that some messages may not have been backed up where devices

may have been

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