Enda Brady: UK correspondent on the UK Government releasing files related to Lord Mandelson's appointment

The UK Prime Minister was warned of the risk of appointing Lord Mandelson as US ambassador, given his ties with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Documents released by the UK Government include advice warning Sir Keir Starmer the relationship continued after Epstein's conviction.

UK correspondent Enda Brady says this will create extra political pressure for Starmer, especially following the recent local elections. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the Brady UK correspondence with us.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Hello Winda, Hey Heather, great to speak to you again.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Mate. It's like groundhog Day here we are discussing yet
again Starma is Anderpresia yet again?

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yes, so this is again to do with the Epstein
files and his former Ambassador to America, Peter Mandelsson, who
at one stage had described Jeffrey Epstein as his best
pal in the world, no matter where I am, and
even had emailed him to say I think the world
of view. Well, he got the boot in September. Mandelsshon.
What's happened now? Why this is from Page News again

(00:33):
is Starmer has chosen to release all of the files
relating to his appointment of Mandelssohn as British Ambassador to
America last year. They wanted to build a relationship with Trump.
They needed someone who could be in the room with
big political beasts, schmoozs them and do what was best
for Britain and I think they were completely blinded by

(00:54):
Mandelsson's ability to do that, and they completely overlooked this
friendship that was a very deep and long running friendship
with Jeffrey Epstein. Now Mandelson has denied any wrongdoing with
regard to that friendship. He's under investigation by the police
for alleged misconduct in a public office. But what is
damning here really is that Starmer, despite multiple warnings in

(01:16):
the files that have been released overnight, multiple warnings about
Mandelssohn his reputation, he's very close friendship with Epstein, Starmer
went ahead and give him that gig.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Right, So what's your prognosis on his career here, given
that the by election was lost to the Greens and
now there's more of this crap coming out about him.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Well, he will limp on until May. There are council
elections across much of England. There are national elections for
the Parliament in Scotland and the Senate in Wales, and
I think if they're as bad as the polling predicts,
the Labor Party, unless they are Turkey's heading head first
for Christmas, will sit down privately and think we need

(01:56):
someone to turn this ship round before it's too late.
They would still have two and a half years to
the next election. And I think if Starmer loves the
Labor Party and these these elections are as bad as
they are predicted to be, in May, he would have
to step aside. I mean, he's just a deeply unpopular prime.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Minister right now. What is the discount on these white
loss j jebs.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Twenty five percent if you jog, so you've got to
be able to prove. Now, I did wonder how they're
going to do this. This is Boots the pharmacy. They're
in the papers today and they sort they're linking up
with a fitness app. So you will have to have
the app on your watch. You will have to do
five k at weekends and you will get twenty five

(02:39):
percent off Mount Jarro and wegg Ave and all these
weight loss jobs jobs that absolutely everyone seems to be on.
I'm really split on this. I don't like the idea
of I even read an article last week in Runner's
World about like super fit people are now taking white
loss jobs just to get rid of the last two
or three kgs before a race, which is my mind.

(03:00):
The stupidity of this, I don't know. I've made TV
shows on my show Roundtable about these weight loss jobs,
and all of the medical experts, every single woman I've
had on talking about this to a t they have said,
you know, you need to be exercising more, these are
not just like a miracle, click the button and it's done.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah too, right, But so how do you prove that
you've been jogging? Because surely you could just record yourself
going out for quite a brisk walk and then say
I jog really slowly.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Well, well there we go. I think. Look, it's a
great publicity stunt for Boots if I'm honest and we're
talking about it. I think ultimately, if anyone can cover
five K and they've got it on the app, no
matter how long it's taken, they'll get twenty five percent off.
But it's it's a strange one.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
There's a strange one, and thank you very much, really
appreciate it. Into Brady UK Correspondence.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
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