Meatless

Mates and wives of mates and husbands of mates.

And this person said it was like WAGs City Central.

Another friend of another paedophile being pushed into another top-notch ambassadorial role.

I think it is almost impossible to see how Starmer comes back from that.

It does f***ing approve it.

Was the pressure to approve Peter Mandelson...

in the job, at the heart of what happened in that critical vetting process we now know so much about.

Yeah.

And what Robbins went on to tell us in his two hour appearance before the committee today was how much pressure there had been to OK the decision that would hurry Peter Mandelson into the Washington job.

Let's just listen to him in his own words.

as quickly as humanly possible.

So hang on a second.

There is this long vetting process.

There is this cabinet office vetting process.

There is this propriety and ethics process where everyone is meant to do their job thoroughly and report back.

And Robin says, yes, we did do it thoroughly.

We did do it properly.

There was no question that the vetting was done properly.

But the circumstances, the context of the time was just get this guy in.

He says they were actually quite dismissive about the whole vetting process.