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Hello, I'm Sean Curran, and this is yesterday in Parliament from BBC Radio 4.

MPs had a lot of speed reading to do on Monday the 1st of June, their first day back at Westminster after a half-term break,

hundreds of messages and documents relating to the appointment of Peter Mandelson

as the UK's ambassador to Washington were released ahead of a statement in the Commons

about the files.

The Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister Darren Jones looked relaxed as he waited on the

green benches for his turn at the dispatch box.

He chatted to the Government Chief Whip, Jonathan Reynolds, and at one point the two men showed each other their phones.

Ministers and their messages would be a theme of the exchanges that followed.

The Conservative MP, Dr Luke Evans, had been hard at work.

Volume 2, Part 3, page 243. He'd ploughed through the hundreds of documents that had been

published earlier in the afternoon and had come across a text message from the then Cabinet

Office Minister Pat McFadden to Peter Mandelson.

His predecessor states when talking about Labour MPs, every meeting I have is,

who can we tax in order to pay benefits to others? Is that the same experience he's having in every

meeting he now has? This is the message that was heard,

if not around the world, then at least loud and clear at Westminster. Not least because Pat McFadden

is now the work and pension secretary. Luke Evans got a one-word answer from Darren Jones. No.

The chief secretary to the Prime Minister told MPs there'd be a full Commons debate on Wednesday afternoon.

The documents we are publishing today are one of the largest government publications ever laid before this House.

This disclosure process has been wide-ranging, costing the Cabinet office alone over £1 million.

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