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I'm Anoush Shaqueline and you're listening to Daily Politics from The New Statesman.

I'm here with my colleague Will Dunn again for our weekly roundup as it's Saturday.

Hello.

Let's round up the news.

Yeah.

Difficult news week for those who try and make lighthearted jokes about the news. I think you'll agree.

Yeah. So the big news story of the week, obviously the Epstein files and that which they contain.

And yes, as you say, if you are rounding up the week's news in a jocular manner, then this story has the potential to be, first of all, extremely distasteful and defamatory.

So the two things you definitely don't want to aim for as a journalist.

So a tricky one.

Yeah, but we've been talking about this story and what's

unfolded, particularly in light of Peter Mandelson's involvement all week on the podcast. So we

won't go through all of the ins and outs of that. But I do encourage our listeners to go back and

listen to the past episodes and to read an excellent edition of the new statesman, where we

uncover what's been going on behind the scenes in Labour.

But we also...

Yeah, Alvis Peace, the cover story in this week's magazine, is the must read, I think, on the Mandelson side to this story.

It really is.

I mean, she reported before Keir Stama stood up in the Commons and said it that they knew of Mandelson's ongoing friendship with Epstein when they appointed him to US Ambassador, which is the key story of the week. So it's a must-read piece. And then we also write more broadly, like in the column that I've written about sort of what this kind of scandal represents about the rot in our politics and that badgers the Labour Party so specifically.

Yeah.

But let's talk a bit about those who are mentioned in the Epstein files.

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