Downing Street has denied having received a written report from Blue Labour’s Lord Glasman warning against Mandelson’s appointment. Back in September as the Mandelson scandal was kicking off, Politics Home reported:
“It is understood that after visiting the US and meeting people around Trump who raised concerns about Mandelson’s appointment, Glasman sent a memo to No 10 warning about the appointment
…’The brutal truth is that the vast majority of people I met… consider our Labour government to be a front organisation for paedophiles and Pakistani rape gangs.'”
Glasman additionally told Sky News in February:
“They asked me to send a report and I sent a report… I did say when I got back, I would think again about this publicly…. Then I did get a discreet suggestion to basically shut up about that, and I did.”
Tory MP Ben Obese-Jecty last month asked the Cabinet Office:
“On what date did his Department receive a written report from Lord Glassman regarding the nature of the relationship between Lord Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein.”
The reply yesterday, from Cabinet Office minister Nick Thomas Symonds:
“There is no record of receipt of Lord Glasman’s report in the Prime Minister’s Office.”
Some wires are crossed here…
Lord Khan in the Telegraph: “I hope, and I say this in a non-pompous way, that the public service I do will bring rewards in this world and the hereafter,” he says. “I’m hoping the work I do is earning me Brownie points.”