This is The Guardian.

You didn't need deep vetting to tell you that he was going to be a risky appointment.

And we knew that he'd been sacked from previous Labour cabinets twice.

There was already a very, very strong expectation coming from number 10

that he needed to be in post and in America as quickly as human possible.

At its heart it comes down to that original sin.

The Prime Minister's judgment or lack of judgment

in appointing Peter Manderson the fact that he could be this

Trump whisperer. That quite clearly was the wrong decision, a catastrophically wrong decision.

The former Foreign Office Chief sacked over the Peter Mandelson vetting scandal revealed by

The Guardian has finally given his side of the story in an explosive appearance before MPs.

From The Guardians Today in Focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hoff.

Well, we're thrilled to have Pippa Kriera, our political editor and one of the three reporters

behind the extraordinary Guardian exclusive published last week that has, of course, caused so much

fallout in the last few days that, Pippa, you have been responsible for much of the coverage

of. It's not usual, is it, that a former civil servant giving an appearance before the

Foreign Affairs Select Committee becomes this kind of blockbuster event. There were three people

on my train carriage watching the

live stream this morning, which felt quite unusual given it's not a direct route into Westminster.

But this is Ollie Robbins, the former permanent secretary to the foreign office who has sort of

taken the hit, hasn't he, for the Mandelson fallout? Why was this so significant? Well, as you say, Lucy,

it's very unusual to have so much focus on a hearing, but ultimately it's because that this has

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