Enda Brady

And that's why he's chipping in, because he wants to chip away at Andy Burnham's prospects of getting into Parliament and ousting Keir Starmer.

So I think it will be a talking point.

But if I was a voter in Makerfield in Greater Manchester, I wouldn't be looking at rioting in Belfast and making that influence my vote.

I'd be looking at who is going to provide opportunities for my children, who is going to lower the cost of living, who is going to lower the cost of energy, and who is going to get Britain back on the right track again.

You know, so I think this is a big, convenient distraction for the far right.

Yes, look, this is not a problem that the Labour government created or indeed, you know, the previous government.

It was several governments ago.

The bottom line in terms of these migrant hotels and asylum seekers being put up in very good accommodation, it's 16 million NZ dollars a day is being spent on this accommodation.

Do the sums.

You know, that's what, over five days, they're wasting $80 million on this.

And it's not going away and it's not getting any better.

Now with deep divisions emerging over the appointment... And he feels not only has Starmer thrown him under the bus, he's reversed over him a couple of times as well.

So there's so much to get into on this one, Tessa.

So it all goes back to the appointment of Mandelson as UK's ambassador to America.

This was Christmas 2024.

And it was a lovely Christmas bonus and gift for Peter Mandelson, a final political act of an extraordinary career, if you like.

He formally took up that job in February of 2025.

following the completion of the security vetting process, which is why it's all in the news now.

But later last year, early September, he was sacked by the Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Emails had emerged, this big tranche of emails from the so-called Epstein files, and they shed new information on just how deep a friendship he had enjoyed