At TFL, we're making tube journeys faster in the future, with signalling improvements underway

on the Circle District, Hammersmith and City and Metropolitan lines. And there's also the

Elizabeth Line already giving you fast journeys across central London. That is how we're making

the greener way to travel brighter for everyone. Such TFL improvement plan. To the Mayor of London and TFL, every journey

matters. Elizabeth Line is fast compared to other TFL modes, greener than total estimated petrol and diesel

car emissions. Welcome to Sunday morning with Trevor Phillips.

Peter Mandelson and I met for the first time almost exactly 50 years ago, on a march protesting

against apartheid.

It's no secret here in Westminster that over the following three decades he and I worked

together first as student activists, then as television journalists,

and as elected politicians. He's appeared more than once on this program. We were and are still

friends. His political career was long and illustrious. Mine was brief and disastrous.

It's a friend's privilege to tell you that you are

ill-suited to a role, even that you are a complete idiot. Twenty years ago, Peter was honest enough

to make it clear to me that my lack of tact and distaste for compromise meant that I'd be

better suited to journalism than party politics.

I have not spoken personally to Lord Mandelson about the release this weekend of documents, messages, photographs and videos

related to the convicted paedophile Geoffrey Epstein.

He was invited to join us this morning, but declined.

However, he has told this program that neither he

nor his husband, Ronaldo Avila de Silva, has any record or recollection of receiving payments

in 2003 or 2004, or knows whether the documentation is authentic. He does accept that Ronaldo received a loan of

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