Jun 2, 2026 · 43 min · 10 segments
After 83 days of waiting, the government has finally released the second tranche of files on the appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador to Washington. The first tranche was already heavy on…
Cleo WatsonHost
Helen MacNamaraHost
Yeah, I mean, it's a sign of how big this particular tranche is that Helen has not printed the whole thing off.
But in February, the Conservatives pushed this humble address in Parliament, which has compelled the government to produce what is now 1,504 pages of documents about Peter Mandelson's role as US ambassador, or UK ambassador to the US, and how he got there and his dealings in government.
And it's also brought in a load of quite embarrassing text messages and that kind of thing.
Well, they can't really hear the f- being forced in the way that they're proclaiming, uh, all the transparenc- proudly proclaiming the transparency of the humble address.
But the government was forced to publish all of these documents by a vote in Parliament.
Our last episode we did in this was called All Filler, No Killer, uh, where we were quite clear about the amount of kind of guff that had been published alongside some slightly more interesting stuff.
Al- although there's a lot of pages, not all of them shed any light on anything.
But Helen, how about a quick run-through of what, in fact, is just a load of nonsense in there?
Well, the pages include an article, uh, in the New Statesman written by Peter Mandelson, which was published anyway.
It includes three or four transcripts of speeches which have been made, also widely available to the public.
Yeah, I mean, it's a sign of how big this particular tranche is that Helen has not printed the whole thing off.
But in February, the Conservatives pushed this humble address in Parliament, which has compelled the government to produce what is now 1,504 pages of documents about Peter Mandelson's role as US ambassador, or UK ambassador to the US, and how he got there and his dealings in government.
And it's also brought in a load of quite embarrassing text messages and that kind of thing.
Well, they can't really hear the f- being forced in the way that they're proclaiming, uh, all the transparenc- proudly proclaiming the transparency of the humble address.
But the government was forced to publish all of these documents by a vote in Parliament.
Our last episode we did in this was called All Filler, No Killer, uh, where we were quite clear about the amount of kind of guff that had been published alongside some slightly more interesting stuff.
Al- although there's a lot of pages, not all of them shed any light on anything.
But Helen, how about a quick run-through of what, in fact, is just a load of nonsense in there?
Well, the pages include an article, uh, in the New Statesman written by Peter Mandelson, which was published anyway.
It includes three or four transcripts of speeches which have been made, also widely available to the public.
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