Emily Thornberry

He didn't say any of that when he came to give evidence to me, and he didn't say any of that in any letters to me.

So, you know, I'm not saying he lied, but he only gave me half the truth.

I think that the decision had been his, but he should have told others that that's what had happened.

I think he should have said, we had, you know, there's been a wrinkle or there's been, you know, there have been reservations.

But for those reasons, Peter Mandelson will not be allowed to do X, Y and Z. You know, why not say that to the PM?

or to Morgan or whoever it was.

Why keep it a secret?

Why not tell your line manager?

Why not tell the cabinet secretary?

You don't have to go into the details of what has been found, what the problems are, but you can surely talk about how to deal with the problem, how the problems were going to be dealt with and how that was going to affect Maddison's working life.

We're so fed up.

We had the people in front of us, we asked them questions and they'd just been taking the mickey out of us.

They asked us, we gave them direct questions and they half answered it but they missed out the bit that was important.

So they said oh yes there was direct vetting and at the end of it he was appointed.

They missed out the bit saying he didn't pass the vetting.

They missed that bit out.

Being at our most generous, it wasn't a full answer.

There is a question about whether it was misleading.

And was it deliberately misleading?

I mean, this is appalling.