”I do not trust the man and I do not believe the man."

The same could easily be said about Farage. In fact, about the whole Reform UK Limited company posing as a political party - especially since the mass defections of some of the worst elements of the Tory party, who were instrumental in creating the shit-show we were left with in 2024.

FWIW, I’ve also thought, for many years, that there was something very unsavoury and ‘wrong’ about Mandelson. I wouldn’t have trusted him as far as I could spit.