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Firstly, Keir Starmer says he only found out last Tuesday that Peter Mandelson had failed vetting
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but reports are suggesting that he was already aware of red flags regarding security
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Firstly, what's your reaction to that? If Kemi Badnock calls a vote of no confidence in the Prime Minister, will your party support it
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And finally, on your deportation plan, given legal limits, court challenges and the scale involved
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how is it actually deliverable? How will your party succeed where others have failed? Thank you
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Thank you. Well, I mean, look, last September, last September, David Maddox and the Independent, you know, came out very strongly to say he'd been told from sources inside that Mandelson had failed vetting
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And in terms of the red flags, well, we already know that the Prime Minister did read a document about a Russian company that Peter Maddelson's company was directly engaged in
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And actually a Russian company in which Maddelson himself was paid, was a director and was a shareholder
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So it's impossible for the Prime Minister to say that the warning lights weren't flashing
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And if you were Prime Minister and there were news reports last September that your ambassadorial choice had failed vetting you would have thought perhaps he might have had some curiosity to try to find out whether this had really happened or
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not. I just find the whole thing totally incredible. Incredible. There is no way
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the Prime Minister couldn't have known. You're telling me that everyone around him knew and he didn't know? Well it's possible that he's just a puppet and never
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consulted on anything but frankly it isn't believable and I do believe strongly that
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he misled the House of Commons, that he lied to the country especially. He was so definitive
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in that Hastings speech that all the necessary channels had been gone through, that vetting
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had been assured. No, I think he's caught in a terrible trap. If there's a motion of
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no confidence put down, yes we would support it but it's not going to pass. The Labour
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backbenchers are not yet of a mood to get rid of their Prime Minister, although after
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May 7th they just might be. And we are campaigning quite strongly around the country saying vote
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reform, get Starmer out and if they have the worst set of local election results, Welsh
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election results, Scottish election results in the history of the party, then that will
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certainly do for him. Thank you very much indeed
