The Mandelson Files - are we going to learn too much?

Not Another One

Richards Green Montgomerie Martin

Politics, News, Political, Political Commentary, Prime Minister, General Election, Number 10, Not Another One, Rishi Sunak

4.7 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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What will be the political consequences when the full Mandelson documents are published? Modern politicians are robotic enough, but if all their private exchanges risk becoming public will they dare to be human? Can we combine transparency with the need for ministers to have space to be human? Or do we have the right to full disclosure when power appears to have been abused? Plus, will the Education Secretary’s SEND reforms work? And the team assess the prospects ahead of this week’s crucial by-election.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to not another one.
0:14.0	Another crazy week.
0:16.0	The news just keeps coming in a sort of, it's not really a tsunami, is it, chaps?
0:20.0	It's like waves and waves and waves and you know, you think maybe there will be calm before another storm, but there never is calm.
0:28.0	Anyway, the four of us are all together today, reunited, which hasn't happened for a while, in the studio together.
0:33.9	So we can really dig deep and delve as Steve would say delve deep.
0:39.4	If that's okay with people. If that's okay with people. I am Miranda Green and I'm joined by Ian Martin,
0:45.1	Tim Montgomery, Steve Richards and Steve, I believe you had an interesting journey to the studio.
0:50.8	Yeah, and it just shows these highly charged images. I was cycling to the studio and that
0:57.2	takes me around Regent's Park where Peter Mandelson lives and I didn't know which house it was.
1:03.7	I do now. I mean, you could not move for photographers and camera people and reporters.
1:13.6	And so I know exactly where it is now his house.
1:15.2	And I think I just... So it's a total circus.
1:16.6	Total circus.
1:17.8	And he will be trapped in that house.
1:20.3	He won't want to go out and be photographed again.
1:23.8	And you just, I mean, you know, the arc, when was he Washington ambassador about three months ago still?
1:31.0	About then, glorying in this glamorous, powerful role.
1:35.6	And there he is, back from the police station late at night,
1:39.2	and then trapped in this beautiful looking house, I have to say,
1:49.9	but nonetheless trapped because if he's out, they will be mobbed, you know, with these people.
1:53.3	I mean, you know, there are many, many layers to the story.
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