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Chris, it's a slightly later recording of newscast. We're sitting down at quarter past seven on Wednesday, the 4th of February.

Yes, and not quite in the sort of Brexit cast, sort of half-eleven or half-midnight or whatever.

But there's a, you know, we've awaited for a parliamentary process to reach his conclusion,

haven't we? Although there was an opposition party using a parliamentary procedure called a humble

address to compel the government to publish things that it initially hadn't wanted to publish.

So actually it does have quite a Brexit cast feel to it. Their dear newscaster is Adam's tone of

voice taking on a thing that just creates ringbinders in my mind.

Exactly. Also, so actually, Chris, just so I'm clear in my mind about what's happened to

it, I think we've got two things now. One, there is a process for the government now releasing

all its documents that it generated while vetting Peter Mandelson and deciding whether he should be

appointed ambassador in Washington, although it's quite a convoluted process that's been

invented here. Yes. So in essence, exactly that, where the Conservatives used a technique

that we can get into when we're properly up and running, and it means that in time, the government is going to

publish some documents, but not immediately, certainly not today as we record on Wednesday,

not least because the police have said, hang on, we're doing an inquiry, so be careful.

And the subplot, or the second point, is that Kira Starmor's authority amongst his own

colleagues, has taken another big knock.

It has. And I've been actually surprised at how black the mood is now amongst quite a few Labour MPs.

All to be discussed on this episode of Newscast.

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