James Cook
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 19 Sep
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I think his interest was more in staying in some role in domestic politics anyway.
And he ended up going into the House of Lords and then being thrown out or suspended, I should say, from the Parliamentary Labour Party because it emerged that he'd campaigned for a friend in a council election who'd been
charged with child sexual images offences, and that friend was later convicted.
And then another twist, an email that we received just after that from the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, which says, I'll read some of it, the Foreign Affairs Committee will continue its scrutiny of Lord Mandelson's security vetting with two evidence sessions, hearing from Morgan McSweeney and Kat Cooley.
And it goes on to say that the committee will hear evidence from Cat Little, who's a very senior civil servant.
And we talk about her exact role in a minute tomorrow at 9.30am.
That's Thursday.
And that next week on Tuesday, the former Downing Street chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, will appear in front.
So a couple of this yet again, the sentence continues and continues and continues despite the full stop, which Adam's point was, you know, the government saying we're sorry we messed this up despite that full stop being at the start.
Yeah, you know, there are umpteen, perhaps infinite, it seems at the moment, chapters in the Lord Mandelson fiasco saga.
Attach what description you want.
We've obviously had this concentrated blast of it over the last seven days in a row now at Westminster because the Guardian's scoop around all of this broke at around three o'clock on Thursday afternoon of last week.
And here we are recording it live.
It's almost seven o'clock on Wednesday evening and it's been making news every day for seven days straight.
And yes, as you say, it's going to make news again in its own way with Cat Little, who is the chief civil servant in the Cabinet Office when she appears in front of the House.
Foreign Affairs Select Committee.
She's had something of a walk-on role, if you like, in the news of the last couple of days because she featured in a story that The Guardian also had in this context around who else knew prior to the Prime Minister.
that the recommendation of the vetting, the vetters, was that there should be effectively a red box tick for Peter Mandelson's vetting.
Well, Cat Little, alongside Antonio Romeo, the Cabinet Secretary, was...
aware, but certainly those in government in Downing Street have been keen to point out that in their view, the outlook of those two civil servants was very different from that of the now former lead civil servants in the Foreign Office, because they went through a process seeking to inform
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