A lack of confidence

I was away last week, so missed some of the news.

It was dominated by Peter Mandleson and the fact as Ambassador to the USA, he passed trade sensitive information to convicted sex trafficer, Jeffery Epsten, after Epstein had been convicted.

Keir Starmer had appointed him as Ambassador, replacing the previous incumbant, who had done nothing wrong, but despite warnings about Mandleson's previous untrustworthy behaviour.

On Wednesday, at PMQs, Starmer was skewered by Baddenoch on the issue, and then the Cabinet Office said it would release documents relating to Mandleson, after redacting what it deemed to be in the National Interest.

Parliament did not belive the Cabinet Office, and instead decided it would form a committe, and that would decide what was in the National Interest, not take the Cabinet Office's word.

This is remarkable. Parliament, or the House of Commons, deciding, with a majority of Labour MPs, that it cannot trust the Cabinet Offfice's statements on the matter of National Security!

This has been largly missed by the media, but is a remarkable turn of events.

Instead, it has been a feeding frenzy about Mandleson, Andrew and the Epstein files, and yet no one seems to be concerned with the victims of trafficing or those who were under age when they were raped. Raped by the great, rich and "good".

The Government is now not in control of the release of documents, a process that would have previously been under the control of Ministers and lawyers.