BBC's Emma Barnett Tears Into Government's 'Boys' Club' Amid Fallout From Mandelson Files

Peter Mandelson and Emma Barnett

BBC presenter Emma Barnett tore into the government’s “boys’ club” culture in a tense interview with a Labour minister over the Peter Mandelson files.

The government has just released the first tranche of documents related to the vetting of the former Labour peer before he was appointed as the UK’s ambassador to Washington.

The files show Keir Starmer’s national security adviser Jonathan Powell warned about the reputational risk of hiring Mandelson...