Jon Sopel

So for him personally,

For a man who has now been out of office for, well, it will be kind of eight or nine months, for a man who was fired from the job, for a man who really we've never seen in the public eye, because he's always in the show, he's always at the back of the hall watching the speeches, he's always in the background, he's always in the wings, he will be right in the centre of political Westminster on Tuesday.

And we know what those questions are for him now.

Did you pressure?

Did you say vetting didn't matter?

Was it you that pushed forward this idea of Matthew Doyle getting an ambassadorial role?

And more importantly, were you happy to see this process with Mandelson rushed because you'd already decided it was going to happen come what may?