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The Owen Jones Podcast

Starmer Was FINISHED - But MPs Messed It Up

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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0:00.0

I'm completely losing my mind here and frankly you should be losing your mind as well.

0:04.8

The political elite today failed catastrophically to hold themselves to account from that sentence you can see the problem.

0:11.6

And the media as well also catastrophically failed.

0:15.7

Morgan McSweeney, the former chief of staff to the Prime Minister for now, Kirstama,

0:20.7

was hauled before MPs at the House of Commons,

0:23.5

Foreign Affairs Select Committee,

0:25.2

to answer for his role in the appointment of Peter Mandelson,

0:29.1

the close friend of late Peter Fowel, Geoffrey Epstein, as US ambassador.

0:33.6

And honestly, I despair, I utterly despair.

0:36.2

They completely failed, despite a massive massive open goal as I'll detail. And the media reporting of this is dying as well. So we will hold them to account here properly. Let's just go through the key points that need to be made. Here is one example of what McSreeny said he believed he knew about the relationship between Epstein and Mandelson.

1:01.8

The nature of the relationship that I understood he had with Epstein was not a close friendship.

1:06.7

How I understood it at the time was a passing acquaintance that he regretted having and that he apologised for what has emerged since then was way, way, way worse than I had expected at the time.

1:20.9

And it was when I saw the pictures, when I saw the Bloomberg questions in September 2025.

1:28.4

I have to say it was like a knife through my soul.

1:31.8

So he claimed he thought that Geoffrey Epstein was just a passing acquaintance

1:36.3

when Peter Mandelson was nominated by him, by the British government, as the ambassador

1:43.1

to the United States.

1:44.8

And he says it was like a knife through my soul

1:49.2

when he discovered the extent of Peter Mandelson's links to Geoffrey Epstein.

1:54.3

Let me be clear. I know exactly what he was doing there.

1:57.5

He thought long and hard, probably discussed it with some trusted people, before he settled on that phrase, a knife through my soul. You see, that was deliberately

2:07.3

the only striking phrase he used because he wanted it to stand out because he thinks headline

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