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It lays bare, pulls back the curtain on a global elite that believes in total impunity.

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This is the two mats Q&A brought to you by the subscribers

of the New World magazine. Let's get stuck straight in. The first question comes from Susan in

Preston. Susan asks, nothing in the news in recent times has made me quite so angry as the

Mandelson affair. Not Partygate, not the expenses scandal, not even Brexit.

I'm absolutely bloody raging. Can you explain why this particular story has had this visceral effect on me

and many others I know? Indeed, I can't remember anything so incensing so many of my friends.

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