Hello, welcome to coffeehouse shots. I'm James Heel and I'm joined today by Tim Shipman.

Now, Tim, with old Houston British politics to hearing the headline, Peter Manderson has resigned.

This time, it's not from a top government job, but as a member of the Labour Party.

I've been writing about politics since 2001, and in that

time, Peter Mandelson has now resigned four times. Wow. Yeah, no, he's finally, he's left the Labour Party

this time, under his own steam, having been the subject of some of this massive drop from the Epstein

files again. And we now have the slightly strange case where it would

seem that as business secretary under Gordon Brown, he was lobbying against his own government on

some stuff that Epstein was interested in. Peter has forgotten, misplaced or never received

$75,000, US dollars, about $55,000 at the time,

apparently from Epstein.

His husband, Ronaldo, also received £10,000, according to these files.

To an osteopath course.

To do an osteopath course, as you do.

There are then some messages that appear to be leaked

Downing Street emails, including emails from Sir Jeremy Haywood, who was then the Cabinet

Secretary Epstein. It doesn't say whose name is on them, but it's all to do with business. So,

perhaps we, who knows, we're putting two and two together on that.

And then most shocking of all, perhaps, the thing that I suspect will stay with people long after

appears to be at least mid-level actual scandal was taking place is that there is a photograph

of Peter Mandelson wearing a pair of wifference hanging out with one of these women in an Epstein house.

Yeah, it's not a, you know, for a man who prides himself on dressing well

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