The Home of Common Sense, this is talk. In the studio, James Price, former senior government advisor, is with us. James, morning to you. It's great to be with you, my friend. It is great, it's great for many reasons, of course. I said it at the beginning. You know, I love the news cycle. You can't always work out the new cycle. People often message in and say, well, why are you not talking about this subject?

Or why, you know, why does that one rise to the top and other ones that seem significant

don't get the same kind of airing?

It's not a conspiracy.

It's just a curious, organic way that news sort of develops.

But what we didn't know this time yesterday was that Mandelson would be back on every single front page.

I mean, it's there. Stama accused of misleading Parliament over Madison.

That's going to be the central allegation here.

Absolutely right.

He literally failed the security checks.

Right. And you might have to remind me over the course of the next hour to wipe the slightly smug grin off my face on this. Because it is really serious and it is really important. And at the end of the day, this is all about, you know, Mandelson's A, why did he failed? We'll come on to that. But broadly, the fact that he was, you know, best friends, in their own words, with a notorious billionaire paedophile in the form of

Jeffrey Epstein, of whom there are plenty of victims and all the rest of it.

The reason that I have a slightly smug smile on my face is that this is coming back to bite

Labour yet again, coming back to bite Kyr-Stama, the Prime Minister, yet again, because

we had so many years of Stama and the rest of his labour goons being so

smug and so sanctimonious. We are good people, not like you evil right wingers. And when we come

in, everything is going to be wonderful and marvellous. And suddenly it turns out they are wrong.

They are just as hypocritical as everybody else. And they're breaking all the rules and the conventions designed to keep us all safe in order to do what? To make the country a better place? Nope. No, that's right. To let this guy who's twice had to be sacked in in horrible scandals in the past, get away with the fact that he failed very high-level security test and has embarrassed us on the world stage with the United States

and everybody else. And who knows, therefore, what else they've done? I mean, this is, I consider

this. I mean, scandals come and go, you know, wallpaper, glasses and suits for Stama. I mean,

to me, that's where the rot setting. The reason the glasses and the suits from Lord Alley were

significant was specifically because of what you just said when they came in.

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