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He says that the Cabinet Office at one point said, oh, do we really need to do this again?

And he also reminds us that, yes, Simon Case had told Keir Starmer directly.

Don't go ahead with the announcement before you've done the vetting.

Ollie Robbins said he was right.

I would have said the same.

And you have to listen to this because it is Ollie Robbins describing how the pressure was, in his words, almost daily.

I mean, that is damning.

No interest in whether, only in when.

In other words, you are there to deliver what we've asked for.

Just hurry up, which takes us back to the expletive at the very beginning.

So Ollie Robbins is in this position.

where the announcement's been made, the agreement's been made, the job is on offer.

Peter Mandelson has already got, we understand, the Downing Street lanyard clearance before the vetting's been signed off.

And what happens then is he goes to the vetting service, which is done through the Cabinet Office, and he asks them what they've found.

He doesn't see any of the forms that we're now familiar with.

He doesn't see the red box of danger being ticked.

That's what we heard today.

But he does understand that there is.

A balance of probabilities.

They are leaning towards saying that this could be risky.