{"id":707929,"date":"2026-06-01T14:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T14:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/707929\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T14:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T14:16:09","slug":"mandelson-said-government-would-never-regret-appointing-him-as-us-ambassador-files-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/707929\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandelson said government would ‘never regret’ appointing him as US ambassador, files show"},"content":{"rendered":"

Files will provide unprecedented government transparency – PM’s spokesmanpublished at 13:04 BST<\/p>\n

13:04 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Iain Watson
Political correspondent<\/p>\n

A little earlier, Downing Street said the second tranche of the so-called Mandelson files will be released around 14:30 BST.<\/p>\n

Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister Darren Jones will be speaking in the Commons an hour later. <\/p>\n

The PM’s official spokesman says “every government department” was involved in meeting the terms of the humble address – the demand from Parliament to see documents related to Lord Mandelson\u2019s appointment and time as the UK’s ambassador to the US.<\/p>\n

This is “the largest ever response to a humble address”, the spokesman adds, which he says will provide “unprecedented” government transparency. <\/p>\n

It has involved the discovery, assessment and analysis of “thousands of documents” and material of a party political nature will be included “in the interests of maximum transparency”.<\/p>\n

He also says there will be a clear explanation of how documents were gathered and any redactions made.<\/p>\n

Some documents held back at the request of the police will be made available at a later date but the timing is not in the government\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n

Asked about disappearing messages in WhatsApp chats, he said there is a review of corporate communications channels. <\/p>\n

The spokesman also says, when asked if a response is expected from Keir Starmer, that the PM has no “public facing commitments” today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Files will provide unprecedented government transparency – PM’s spokesmanpublished at 13:04 BST 13:04 BST Iain WatsonPolitical correspondent A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-707929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}