Keir Starmer Addresses Parliament on Mandelson Vetting Process

I know many members across the House will find these facts to be incredible. [laughter] To that — to that, to that, I can only say they are right. It beggars belief that throughout the whole timeline of events, officials in the Foreign Office saw fit to withhold this information from the most senior ministers in our system in government. This is information I should have had a long time ago. I would not have gone ahead with the appointment. I should not have appointed Peter Mandelson. I take responsibility for that decision, and I apologize again to the victims of the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who were clearly failed by my decision.