The New Statesman.

Kier Stama apologised yesterday for appointing Peter Mandelson as US ambassador.

After a vote by MPs forced its hand, the government has released the first batch of files relating to Mandelson's appointment.

They revealed that the Prime Minister was told the Labour peer posed a reputational risk

because of his relationship with the convicted sex offender Geoffrey Epstein

and that his national security adviser raised concerns about the appointment.

The so-called Mandelson files also exposed a number of facts about the vetting process

that were already reported by the new statesman in February

and have angered Labour MPs

all over again and prompted further calls for Kirstama's resignation. So will the Prime Minister go over

this? I'm Anusha Kellyan and this is Daily Politics from the New Statesman and I'm joined by

my colleague Rachel Cunleff. Hi Rachel. You've read through every word of these files. So why don't you just tell us a bit what's actually in them?

Like what can you physically see in these files?

So the first thing to say is that the Mandelson files is quite a grand, dramatic way of describing what is for the most part really quite boring documents.

So I would say there are about 140-ish pages and a third of those is just standard

boilerplate like onboarding. There's a lot of like from the foreign office, you know,

Mr. Mandelson, welcome to your new job. Please fill in this form. Here's what your enumeration package

will be. Here's what your annual leave will be. And none of that is, you know, relevant to

the issues that we're discussing. But this is just, I guess, a sign that these files contain

all correspondence to do with his appointment. So you've got emails about the appointment

itself. You've got the foreign office HR staff. And then you've

got what happened after he was forced to resign or sacked in September last year, which is

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