This is The Guardian.

Before Mandelson took up his post, UKSV recommended with red flags that clearance should be denied

and there was high concern that that was not brought to my attention or the

attention of the Foreign Secretary at the time or subsequently is a very serious error of judgment.

I regret that the due diligence process which threw up, as I understand it, serious reputational risks didn't

colour the Prime Minister's judgement in making the appointment.

It wasn't just risky, it was wrong.

What else did you need to know at that moment?

I mean, look, it's a fair point, and he shouldn't have been appointed.

Will the Prime Minister finally take responsibility and go.

I'm Pippa Carrera.

And I'm Kieran Stacey.

And you're listening to Politics Weekly.

For the Guardian.

Pippa, you're supposed to be on a day off.

What are you doing here?

I've asked myself that several times today,

Kieran. Yeah, I am here because I am hopeless and obsessive and a workaholic. And dedicated to

our listeners. Yes, of course. So thank you very much for coming in. Good day to come in. We sat here on

Monday and discussed that was the first time, really. We'd caught up at all after you and Henry Dyer and Paul Lewis broke the story last week about Peter Mandelson's vetting. We've kind of had a bit more time to sit on it and distill it. And Westminster's obviously had time to digest it. So I wondered whether this

might be just a good time to zoom out a little bit, get away from all the detail that we've

absorbed over the last few days and just remind ourselves, why does this story actually matter?

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