Recruitment errors are common. Especially when someone would be right for the actual job, as Mandelson proved he was. Especially when the applicant lies or witholds information about connections with someone else who died 6 years previously. Few politicians or media objected strongly at the time.

Have the journalists been told not to mention the Epstein files? It’s just looking odd now. Maybe the owners could shed some light on it.

And that's to get a media that concentrates on giving the public factual information, as opposed to their narrative.

I agree. Channel 4 News has plummeted.

The answer has to be Farage.

Channel 4 News has been taking the same anti-Starmer line.