Labour’s latest ludicrous defence of appointing Peter Mandelson is that if he was fit to be on Times Radio and BBC Newsnight, he was fit to be to be ambassador. Foreign Office minister Stephen Doughty said in the Commons:
“I hardly think that Lord Mandelson would have been one of the leading candidates to become chancellor of Oxford University. Um, but he was. I highly doubt that he would have been offered a job as presenter on Times Radio, but he was. When he appeared on BBC Newsnight, a programme that’s done very important work investigating the crimes of uh…”
Farcical…
Peter Mandelson has finally said sorry for believing Jeffrey Epstein over the paedophile’s victims. He told BBC Newsnight:
“Yesterday, I did not want to be held responsible for his crimes of which I was ignorant, not indifferent, because of the lies he told me and so many others. I was wrong to believe him following his conviction and to continue my association with him afterwards. I apologise unequivocally for doing so to the women and girls who suffered. I was never culpable or complicit in his crimes. Like everyone else I learned the actual truth about him after his death. But his victims did know what he was doing, their voices were not heard and I am sorry I was amongst those who believed him over them.”