Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast Prime Minister's Questions Special.

Well once again we go intrepidly in search of the answers that should come but possibly won't.

I'm Ian Tiny Morris. And I'm Simon Sandsbury. Are we anticipating a death of questions, avoidance again?

Well, it's been a tough week already, isn't it, for the PM?

He's faced his fair share of queues on Monday and obviously,

Olly, what's his name? I'm still troubled by that. I don't think if you're a sir, you can be

Ollie. Did his thing yesterday. So I'm suggesting today that Kemi is not going to give the

PM an easy ride. She has it for the last few. And we've got our bingo cards ready for 14 years. And she,

she would have gone straight to war and back Donald Trump. She's not fit to make a discussion.

So we're all poised. Shall we run VT and see how it goes?

Yeah, let's see whether see whether anybody disappoints.

Yes, maybe not the leader of the opposition.

Thank you, Mr Speaker.

Does the Prime Minister stand by his statement at the dispatch box on the 10th of September last year

that full due process was followed in the appointment

of Peter Mandelson as our ambassador to Washington.

Yes, I do.

Mr. Speaker, let me make clear at the outset that the appointment itself was a mistake,

it was my mistake.

I've apologised to the victims for it and I do so again.

What I set out to the House on Monday is that Foreign Office officials granted security clearance to Mandelson

against the recommendation of UK security vetting.

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