The political fires facing the Government
Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips
Sky News
4.0 • 156 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
The Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is continuing to come under pressure for his decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as the UK Ambassador to the U.S. despite apparent concerns from Cabinet members, but as our panel discuss it’s the treatment of women and girls by powerful men that has sparked this political fire.
Our panel this week is Baroness Ayesha Hazarika, Former Head of News and Current Affairs at Channel 4 Dorothy Byrne, and Former Downing Street Director of Communications Craig Oliver.
Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden joins us this week from the Government. For the Conservatives, Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Alex Burghart and Labour peer Lord Glasman are also with us to make sense of everything.
You can watch Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips every weekend from 8:30am on Sky News
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| 0:35.7 | Welcome to Sunday morning with Trevor Phillips. |
| 0:39.7 | Annie Farmer, Jess Michaels, Courtney Wilde, Maria Farmer, Shawna Rivera, Michelle O'Carter, Lisa |
| 0:47.8 | Phillips, Haley Robson, Sarah Ransom. |
| 0:51.8 | It's a rogue call of horror. |
| 0:58.0 | All women allegedly abused and exploited by Jeffrey Epstein. There are hundreds more. Then, on the other hand, there's Bill Clinton, Steve Bannon, |
| 1:06.0 | Noam Chomsky, Ehud Barak, Jack Lang, Michael Jackson, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, Peter Mandelson, all men, friends or associates of Geoffrey Epstein. |
| 1:19.0 | The men had influence, money and fame. |
| 1:23.2 | The women and girls, none of those things. |
| 1:27.0 | This is a programme about politics. We will rightly address who did. the women and girls, none of those things. |
| 1:27.5 | This is a program about politics. |
| 1:29.7 | We will rightly address who did what, when and why, and what it means for leaders here |
| 1:35.3 | in the United States, in Europe and beyond. |
| 1:39.1 | The dark heart of the Epstein scandal, though, is a world in which men have all the power, |
| 1:44.1 | the women and girls, though, is a world in which men have all the power, the women, and girls, |
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