Standards in Public Life Debate

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Standards in Public Life

Ayoub Khan Excerpts
Monday 9th February 2026

(6 days, 11 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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Darren Jones Portrait Darren Jones
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The Prime Minister apologised last Thursday for having appointed Peter Mandelson. Had information that is now available been available at the time of his appointment, he would not have appointed him in the first place.

Ayoub Khan Portrait Ayoub Khan (Birmingham Perry Barr) (Ind)
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We all know that the Prime Minister is a lawyer, and lawyers must understand and test the veracity of information that is being provided. The Prime Minister has said from the Dispatch Box that he took a risk, and that he had known that Mandelson had kept up his relationship with Epstein. I suspect that the risk was of the public finding out, and the public do now know about this. Is it not simply time for the Prime Minister to go?