This podcast is sponsored by HSBC UK Private Bank, opening up a world of opportunity.

This is a global player original podcast.

Kirstama came to office saying that he wanted to clean up politics.

They weren't going to have this constant round of scandal and cover up and misbehaviour.

And yet where are we now? Mates and wives of mates and husbands of mates. And this person said

it was like Wags City Central. I think processes are going to change a bit as a result of this whole fiasco.

Another friend of another paedophile being pushed into another top-notch ambassadorial role.

I think it is almost impossible to see how Stama comes back from that.

The Morgan McSweeney, the Chief of Staff, rang Sir Philip

and said in terms stronger than those that I can use before the watershed.

I think you should.

Well, I'll just say that it was just to prove it with terms stronger than that.

Does that accord with your impressions?

Does that approve it? Was the pressure to approve Peter Mandelson in the job at the heart of what

happened in that critical vetting process we now know so much about? The account from Sir O Robbins of what happened and why is so starkly different

from what Kea Starma had to tell the Commons that you're left wondering now whether

it's Kea Starma who can survive. Welcome to the newsagents.

The Newsagents. The Newsagents.

It's John. It's meatless.

And it's hard to overstate the drama of what we witnessed today in that committee room

with a bunch of MPs and a senior civil servant.

And don't let the fact that he spoke in a quiet voice gull you to believe that this was quiet and inconsequential.

...