And now a reading from the desk of Peter Mandelson.

Dear David, referring to David Lammy, as today is polling day in Oxford and I'm returning to

London, I wanted to drop you a line personally about the appointment to Washington.

Thankfully, the media speculation has gone away, and I hope this was not too irritating to you.

I just wanted you to know that if you were minded to appoint me as ambassador, I would make sure

you never regretted it.

Quote for a man in battle.

Like, hey, look, what's the worst that could happen?

It becomes a government-endangering fatal catastrophe that just utterly never leaves the media

spotlight.

I will make sure you never regret it.

Immortal words from a strange man.

I really like the idea of using that phrase in particular

because obviously there are so many ways to read it.

And if you're like, I don't know,

it comes across as a bit sort of like a thing a sex guy, I would say, you know?

It's like you're never, you're never going to regret it.

Try it once, you know?

That's right.

But no, I mean, so I've been through the, well, like very, very quickly skated through all three volumes of the Mandelson disclosures. And it's crazy how much there's

kind of not much there. It's, okay, so he's kind of like mean about Starma. Everyone's mean about

Starma. It's mostly him texting the same three guys being like, oh, you were very good in the

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