Farage: Appointing Mandelson 'serious misjudgement' by PM

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Appointing Peter Mandelson as the UK's Ambassador the US was a "serious misjudgement" by the prime minister, Nigel Farage has said. The Reform UK leader added Sir Keir Starmer "was reluctant to get rid of Mandelson" and has left himself "in a very vulnerable position with the rest of the parliamentary Labour party".    Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Yes, oddly, I was with Lord Mandelson last Tuesday when I was in Washington.

00:03I mean, look, he's an enormously talented bloke, of that was no doubt.

00:07You know, I dealt with him when he was a European commissioner, 20 years ago.

00:11But to have appointed him to that role was a serious misjudgment from the Prime Minister.

00:17We don't yet know what the intelligence briefings would have said,

00:22but it looks, although, Morgan McSweeney, the Prime Minister's right-hand man,

00:26and the Prime Minister, ignored the warnings, carried on.

00:31He was then reluctant to get rid of Mandelson,

00:35and he's now left himself in a very vulnerable position with the rest of the parliamentary Labour Party.

00:40It is about the Prime Minister's judgment,

00:44but it's also about the role that Morgan McSweeney plays in this government.

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