Nish Kumar

deployment of said dark arts is because he was trying to advance a progressive political cause and trying to get a Labour government elected.

Now, this story completely dismantles the very idea, the purpose of Peter Mandelson.

He was not trying to advance a progressive political cause.

It's all very well and good for Mandelson to claim that he's now thinking about the victims and centering them.

He doesn't seem to have been particularly concerned about the victims or centering them based on an email exchange that the Daily Mail has reported on from these Epstein files.

The email exchange is after Epstein was released from prison with this exchange about Epstein celebrating with two strippers.

Mandelson asks him, how is freedom feeling?

And Epstein says she feels fresh, firm, and creamy.

I actually stumbled over that because it's quite hard physically to read that out loud.

And Mandelson responds, naughty boy.

Now, remember...

This was after Jeffrey Epstein had been released from prison on sex crimes.

I can't believe I'm having to say that, but that is the situation that we find ourselves in.

And secondly, it's not particularly progressive to, on instructions from said paedophile, be lobbying the Labour government in 2009, as Mandelson appears to have done based on these email exchanges, on behalf of JP Morgan to attempt to water down legislation the Labour government is trying to pass and protect bankers' bonuses.

It is a serious question for Keir Starmer about his political judgment.

It is a really serious question because lives have been destroyed.

People are dead.

Women were sexually assaulted and sexually exploited.

If we're really taking violence against women and girls seriously, which we supposedly are as a society, we have to question how seriously we can be taking it.

if given what we already knew about Mandelson's relationship with Epstein, the prime minister of this country was willing to give him a job as an ambassador to the United States.