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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
John Crace

Cat Little’s evidence to MPs is destined for civil service textbooks

Cat Little giving evidence to committee
Cat Little, the civil servant’s civil servant. Photograph: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA

Here we go again. Some of the public may have had enough of the Peter Mandelson scandal by now, and would rather the focus returned to things such as the Iran war and the cost of living crisis. But Westminster has barely started on Mandy. Can’t get enough of him. This one will run and run.

You can almost hear the groans from No 10. By now it has finally dawned on everyone that Mandelson was never going to be a success as the US ambassador even if he hadn’t maintained close links with Jeffrey Epstein and leaked insider information to a bank.

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