Nish Kumar

Listen, before we move on, let me just say, and I just want to say I'm saying this entirely of my own volition.

I just feel like I have to bring this up.

Peter Mandelson denies all wrongdoing.

So I'm just bringing that up of my own accord.

And in no way I'm doing that because we are legally obliged to.

That's just something I wanted to throw into the mix.

Sometimes it's nice to...

bring in a denial of wrongdoing, you know, when you're alleged to have lobbied on behalf of the banking industry on the instructions of a pedophile.

Sometimes it's nice to throw in the denial that you've issued so far.

Anyway, let's move on.

Calls have grown for him to give evidence to the United States Congress over his links to the convicted sex offender.

Keir Starmer has backed those calls, saying that Epstein's victims have to be the first priority.

Absolutely astonishing.

Just to clear up, because we've talked a lot about Jeffrey Epstein's convictions and what people knew and what people didn't know.

In 2008, Epstein pled guilty to charges of procuring a child for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute.

Now, this was done as a plea deal, even though federal officials had identified a total of 36 abuse victims, some as young as 14.

He served almost 13 months in custody.

So that's 2008.

He was then arrested again in Florida in July 2019 on federal charges for sex trafficking of minors in Florida and New York.

And a month later, was found dead in his cell.