Paul Lewis

And there is also input from the security services who would identify any concerns that they have.

As many people watching this will remember, he resigned over disclosures about his relationship with the disgraced sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

And then in the wake of that, there's been lots of concern in Parliament about the process that led up to his appointment.

And in February, there was this thing you referenced, the humble address.

Now, what that is, it's a parliamentary motion to force the government to disclose what it said were, quote, all papers related to Mandelson's appointment.

And that's actually, I think, really important here.

And we've been reporting on some of this.

So essentially, you know, that's a mandate to government to say anything you've got about Madison has to be disclosed.

There was an exception made for documents that could prejudice national security or international relations.

And those documents, the super sensitive ones, were supposed to go to the Intelligence and Security Committee.

However, the documents about Mandelson's vetting, highly sensitive, have not gone to that committee.

And according to our reporting, officials have recently been considering whether not to disclose them to the committee.

And that would be a really significant thing.

arguably a breach of Parliament's wishes.

You know, I think that has sort of been lost.

It's turned into such a huge political story, right?

Keir Starmer, we're like weeks away from the May election.

I can see that Westminster is latching onto all these different aspects.

But for me, it's really significant that, you know, officials, unelected officials, have been actively thinking about, and as of when we published our story, no decision had been made, not disclosing these documents, the documents at the heart of the story that relate to what we've revealed.

to Parliament's approved committee.