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Mandelson files: What you need to know
Key takeaways
- The government has published more than 1,000 pages of documents about Lord Mandelson's stint as the UK's ambassador to the US.
- The release, split into three volumes, cost over £1m to assemble and is more than 10 times the size of first batch of files released in March.
- The documents are still being digested across Westminster.
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Paul Seddon Political reporter Reuters. The government has published more than 1,000 pages of documents about Lord Mandelson's stint as the UK's ambassador to the US.
It comes after MPs voted to force the release of documents about his appointment to the job, from which he was sacked last year following revelations about the extent of his relationship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The release, split into three volumes, cost over £1m to assemble and is more than 10 times the size of first batch of files released in March.
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