Former government adviser Robert Midgley has described the redaction of information about Peter Mandelson‘s influence on the cabinet as “sickening”. During an appearance on Ben Leo’s GB News show he discussed some breaking news about fresh allegations about Madelson as the furore over his appointment to the US ambassador role without proper vetting rages on. It is being claimed he actively intervened in cabinet business while he was US ambassador. New files have revealed the disgraced peer often messaged senior Labour politicians with suggestions far outside his remit.

“It’s a pretty damning moment for the prime minister. Another nail in the coffin, and it is getting to be a pretty big coffin right now,” he said. “And this pulls in the other cabinet ministers. I mean the ambassadors job in the US is primarily to be our UK link to the White House and to be our man on the inside… Yes it’s the ambassador’s job to advise cabinet ministers from time to time about US goings on for their department,” he said.

He continued: “But when it comes down to cabinet briefing and… telling ministers what to do outside of that remit that is completely inappropriate.

“From what I understand most of the interventions have been unsolicited too, which makes it even worse.

“They (MPs) never even wanted it and it calls in people like Yvette Cooper, the foreign secretary and we don’t know how far that link goes because.. The Telegraph reported that it could link to China and even the Chagos islands .

“And of course this [report] is looking like it will be redacted quite heavily and it may not include a lot of security stuff but it may pull in a lot of other factors that have been hot in the news too.

“So we’ll have to wait and see what happens but it is pretty damning for a lot of people in cabinet right now,” he said.

“The worst part of all this is that so much of what we want to know will be redacted and it will be the prime minister who will be probably redacting it himself.

“…The fact is that we’re meant to have a transparent government that is meant to tell us what is going on here and there but it is going to cover this up like there’s no tomorrow to save the prime minster’s own skin.

“That is a classic PR move that they do every time this sort of investigation takes off and that is the most sickening part of the whole thing.”