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I made a mistake in appointing Peter Manderson and let me follow that up with an apology to the victims of Epstein.

What we've seen is a much more detailed picture of the process.

The way that Kier Stama and his most senior political aides overruled the warnings about

reputational risk.

And then we also see some of the fallout from what happened after Peter Madison was fired.

Kirstama has admitted it was a mistake to appoint Petal Mandelson as US ambassador and has

apologised again after new documents revealed he'd ignored warnings about Mandelson's links to

Jeffrey Epstein. From The Guardians today in Focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Holm.

Joining me is Archie Bland, the Guardian's Head of National News.

Thanks so much for coming up to the studio, Archie.

So yesterday we had the drop, if we can call it that, of the Mandelson files,

government documents that give more information about the decision around his appointment

as US ambassador at the end of 2024.

And then in the second half of the documents

his sacking from that position over his ties with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

So we know that Kirstama, the Prime Minister has previously stood up in the comments and said

that he knew about Mandelson's links to Epstein. What more have we learned about that knowledge from the files

we saw yesterday? So one thing that we've got from this, Tronshaw Files, and we should say that

it's not complete, that there are more coming in later batches and that some have been held back

at the request of the police at this stage. But what we've seen is a much more detailed picture

of the process leading up to Peter

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