What the Mandelson documents reveal – and what we still don’t know

What have we learned from release of files relating to former peer’s appointment – and sacking – as UK ambassador to Washington? UK politics live – latest updates We now have the first tranche of documents promised by the government connected to the appointment of Peter Mandelson as the UK’s ambassador to Washington – 147 pages from a mass of information believed to total in the hundreds of thousands. Mandelson has previously denied any wrongdoing, and his lawyers have said that he does not...

By Peter Walker Senior political correspondent