This is The Guardian.
I am sorry.
Sorry for having believed Mandelson's lies.
But what he didn't crucially say was that he was sorry for appointing Mandelson,
despite knowing that there were links between Mandelson and Epstein.
Not an insignificant moment, like there is a real weakening of his position.
Keir Starmer is facing one of the worst weeks of his premiership so far,
apologising to victims of Jeffrey Epstein as he tries to weather the Peter Mandelson scandal.
Can the Prime Minister survive?
From The Guardians Today in Focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hoff.
Joining me is Lexie Topping, Guardian political correspondent.
So I mean, it's been a torrid week for Keir Starmer,
the Prime Minister, arguably the most challenging of his premierships so far.
He is facing serious questions from within his own party after that admission in the Commons yesterday that he knew about the relationship between Peter Mandelson,
the former US ambassador and the child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
He has apologised today in a pre-arranged speech in Hastings,
but he used the first part of that speech to make this apology.
What did he say?
What was the tone?
It was interesting actually