On Monday at 14:12 BST, the Guardian’s Andrew Sparrow posted two sentences announcing one of the largest government document dumps in British political history:
The Cabinet Office has published the Mandelson files.
They are in three volumes.Andrew writes the Guardian’s daily live blog, Politics with Andrew Sparrow, and that 14:12 update was followed by a series of posts exploring the trove of files relating to the government’s disastrous appointment of Peter Mandelson as the UK’s ambassador to Washington. Mandelson was sacked last year after fresh revelations about the closeness of his friendship with the late sex offender
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