What’s missing from ‘embarrassing’ Mandelson files? – The Latest

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  This is The Guardian.

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  You see Peter Mandelson operating at the peak of his kind of Machiavellian powers.

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  This has some really uncomfortable material in it.

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  There is no doubt that we are going to be hearing about it again and again and again.

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  It feels like the obituary for this government was already being written.

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  There are big gaps still in what we know and I'm sure there is a lot more still to find out.

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  From The Guardian's Today in Focus, this is The Latest with me, Lucy Hough.

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  Well, Archie Bland, Head of National News,

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  we've had now a few more hours to go through the 1,500 pages of Mandelson files that dropped yesterday.

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  Have you read them all in full?

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  No.

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  I've read quite a lot, though.

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  What percentage would you say you've read?

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  I'm going to put it at 35%.

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  So I think it's safe to say from what we have been able to get across, I mean, obviously,

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  there is much more that will come out as journalists have an opportunity to read them in their fullest capacity.

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  But this sense that it's less a smoking gun on the appointment of Mandelson, Peter Mandelson as US ambassador,

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  and more just this very excruciating peek behind the curtain on how this government operates.

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  I think that's right.

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  That's partly because the Guardian's excellent reporting means that many of the smoking guns are already in the open.

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