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

On Monday, the 20th of April, the Prime Minister, Sarkier Starmer, put in a long shift at the dispatch box

as he set out his side of the Peter Mandelson vetting affair.

And he told MPs he'd been deliberately kept in the dark by officials.

By the time Secere Stammer arrived, it was standing room only in the Commons Chamber.

The Prime Minister took his seat and arranged his papers

as a doorkeeper

in white tie and tails arranged a sloping lectern on the dispatch box. Now comes the statement.

Prime Minister Keir Starman. That was as noisy as Labour MPs got over the next two hours and 20

minutes. For the most part, they sat in silence,

as the Prime Minister insisted he had not misled the Commons in his earlier accounts of how

Peter Mandelson was appointed as British ambassador to Washington. Last week, the most senior

official at the Foreign Office, Sir Rolly Robbins, was sacked, after it emerged that Lord Mandelson had failed a security vetting check.

Kirstama said officials had deliberately kept information from him.

I know many members across the House will find these facts to be incredible.

To that, I can only say they are right. It beggars believe that throughout the whole timeline of events, officials in the Foreign Office saw fit to withhold

this information from the most senior ministers in our system in government.

The Conservative leader, Kemi Badenock, said Sekeir Stama's reputation was at stake.

Instead of taking responsibility for the decisions he made, the Prime Minister has thrown his staff

and his officials under the bus. This is a man who once said, I will carry the can for the

mistakes of any organisation I lead. Instead, he has sacked his cabinet secretary. He has

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