Paul Lewis

I mean, actually, there was an intervention in Parliament last week by one of the MPs who sits on a committee that has had advanced sight of the most sensitive documents.

And they seem to be suggesting that there were no documents that they'd seen with any reference to these mitigations.

Now, that really would be extraordinary if if Ollie Robbins and this other official, Ian Collard, have said that mitigations were put in place.

You would imagine those to be written down somewhere.

I mean, if they haven't been written down anywhere, I think I think there'll be even more questions for those two officials.

I mean, honestly, I do think one of the most extraordinary things about this whole process is, you know, we're getting a window now into an area of national security that rarely gets any scrutiny.

And it is extraordinary that seemingly so many decisions have been taken that you would imagine are quite consequential decisions.

without an audit process or without record keeping that would provide, you know, in a situation like this, an explanation as to what happened and on what basis and what the reasoning is.

We still have more documents to come and they're due to be released at some time in June.

That's going to be an enormous avalanche of documents

So when those documents will be released, I'm sure that journalists and parliamentarians and others will be sifting through them to look for what these mitigations were, if indeed they were written down anywhere.

Yeah, so this is a bit complicated.

So just to take a couple of steps back.

You know, Mandelson was sacked in the late 2025 over his relationship with Epstein.

By February 2026 this year, there were growing questions around all of this.

And Parliament passed this thing called a humble address.

And essentially, it's like a motion that compels the government to do something.

And it required the public release of, quote, all papers related to Mandelson's appointment.

The problem seems to be that not all papers have been or are being released.

Now, there is a parliamentary committee called the Intelligence and Security Committee.