'Misled By Mandelson'
Talk Breakfast
Ricky Freelove
4.3 • 763 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Karl Turner MP joins Jeremy to discuss the new files that expose Starmer's appointment of Peter Mandelson in full knowledge of his association with Jeffrey Epstein. Poppy Coburn reviews the morning papers, whilst Susan Hall exposes London Mayor Sadiq Khan over allegations he has covered up South Asian grooming gangs in London for years.
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| 0:00.0 | Avery, good morning to you. Just gone six o'clock. What is it? Thursday, March the 12th. You're very welcome to talk breakfast. The home, of course, the common sense and of alarm clock. Brits will get it all lined out for you. You can get involved. Thank you to Mark Dolan for the last couple of days. I'm going to be honest with you. I don't think all of the blood has gone back into my alcohol stream after Cheltenham yet, but we're getting there. |
| 0:23.2 | Amazing couple of days, but isn't it interesting to come back after 48 hours away from your studio to discover that yet again, it's all about that plum that is supposed to be our Prime Minister? |
| 0:33.8 | Yes, the clock is ticking on Kea Starma. God, I wish you'd get around to a minute. It's official. He ignored the warnings, this morning, over Mandelson's relationship with Peterfowl Jeffrey Epstein before appointing him. All these files, the first batch were released yesterday, proving that he was told. Even Jonathan Powell, the national security adviser, said the speed of which you're doing this is a bit weird. |
| 0:55.5 | People told him this is dangerous ground and he went ahead. |
| 1:01.0 | Reputational risk. |
| 1:02.2 | That's what he was told. |
| 1:04.0 | The close relationship that Mandelson had with Epstein could cause us problems. |
| 1:09.0 | It's really simple. |
| 1:10.6 | Anybody with a brain cell would have gone, |
| 1:12.2 | don't touch Mandelson with a barge pole. What is a barge pole? We'll do that later. Why did he give |
| 1:16.9 | him the job? Kemmy Badenock straight out of the traps yesterday, couldn't agree with him more. |
| 1:21.7 | She says, you know what, mate, you're not fit to lead the country. Have a listen. |
| 1:26.3 | For so long, the Prime Minister has tried to make this about Peter Mandelson's lies. |
| 1:30.3 | What this shows is that it is Kirstama himself who has lied repeatedly since the very start to the whole country about what he knew, when and how. |
| 1:40.3 | And these files have exposed the fact that the Prime Minister has not been honest with the country |
| 1:45.7 | or with the comments about the extent to which he knew about this relationship. |
| 1:49.5 | Could not agree more. 034-49-1,000. 03-4-9-1,000. Get those voice notes in. Who's going to be first today? |
| 1:57.3 | You can text 87-3-2. Listen, Labour today facing huge questions over why they gave this |
| 2:04.1 | guy a 75 grand payoff and he wanted more than half a million. Let me get this right. A man with |
| 2:10.6 | links to a paedophile who blatantly had lied and starmer. That's like me saying to old Damien, G-Spot, |
| 2:16.6 | you're fired and giving him half a million quids. He'd leave for a Coke and a bars bar probably, but anyway, £75,000. What does that tell you about Stama's judgment? This was the guy, sorry to make the point. I don't know when this was. Last year, when asked, do you think that Peter Mandelson could be a reputational |
| 2:34.7 | problem for the government and for you? This is what he said at PMQ's. Oh, it's not ready. Oh, |
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