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HANSARDLord MandelsonI thank the right hon. Gentleman for that. The police investigation will go wherever it needs to go. It will cover any criminality or allegations thereof. That is the right way to…04 Feb 2026HANSARDLord MandelsonI am going to make some progress, because time is pushing on. I will give way in a second. Let me come to the manuscript amendment. We will agree with the ISC how it is going to…04 Feb 2026HANSARDLord MandelsonThe release of information will be done in the way I have just set out. Either it will be done through the Cabinet Secretary working with independent lawyers or, if the material…04 Feb 2026HANSARDLord MandelsonAny correspondence involving Peter Mandelson is within scope. As I say, that will be looked at by the Cabinet Secretary, who will make decisions with independent lawyers and…04 Feb 2026HANSARDLord MandelsonYes, I can confirm that. I thank my hon. Friend, who has huge expertise. We will work with the ISC on this.04 Feb 2026HANSARDLord MandelsonI am not going to give way any more. There are four or five minutes to go. I will make some progress, if that is okay. As the Prime Minister mentioned today, there will have to be…04 Feb 2026HANSARDLord MandelsonAs I say, the timeline will be as soon as possible. We want to get on with this. There is a lot of material to go through. We will get to this as quickly as possible. Other Humble…04 Feb 2026HANSARDLord MandelsonI will give way to my hon. Friend. [Interruption.] She is the first Member behind me to whom I have given way.04 Feb 2026HANSARDLord MandelsonI beg to move a manuscript amendment, to add to the end of amendment (a): “which shall instead be referred to the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament.” I start by…04 Feb 2026HANSARDLord MandelsonI will just make a little progress, then I will give way. Mandelson lied to the Prime Minister. He lied during the vetting process, which I will return to, because a number of…04 Feb 2026HANSARDLord MandelsonI will give way, just let me complete this point. On Monday, the Prime Minister instructed the Cabinet Secretary to investigate all papers released by the US Department of…04 Feb 2026HANSARDLord MandelsonAs the Prime Minister has said many times, if he had known what he knows now, he would not have had Mandelson within a million miles of Government, and that is absolutely right.04 Feb 2026HANSARDLord MandelsonAs the Prime Minister has said, he was lied to repeatedly by Mandelson. I will come to the vetting process in a minute, but the due diligence is within scope of this Humble…04 Feb 2026HANSARDLord MandelsonJust to be clear, he was not appointed to any role in the 2024 election campaign. I remember that campaign very well. Let me clear up two other points that were raised in the…04 Feb 2026HANSARDLord MandelsonI give way to the hon. Lady.04 Feb 2026HANSARDLord MandelsonThe hon. Lady tempts me into hypotheticals that I am not going to get into. [Interruption.]04 Feb 2026HANSARDLord MandelsonI am going to make some progress. I will give way later, but a number of questions have been raised about vetting, and I want to respond to them. The Chair of the Foreign Affairs…04 Feb 2026HANSARDLord MandelsonAs the Prime Minister made clear, he was lied to repeatedly by Peter Mandelson on this. Information about that is in the vetting report, which will be published for the House.04 Feb 2026HANSARDLord MandelsonBefore Mandelson was appointed, there were obviously reports linking him with Epstein. That was looked into as part of the vetting process. Mandelson lied to the Prime Minister…04 Feb 2026HANSARDLord MandelsonI entirely agree. I could not have put it anywhere near as well as that—and, as I said earlier, my hon. Friend made an incredibly powerful speech earlier. She quoted Virginia…04 Feb 2026