And any sensible adult knows that lying during a job interview is not only dishonest, but can blow up in your face – yet, according to Keir Starmer, Mandelson “lied repeatedly” to secure that post as UK ambassador in Washington. Furthermore, if you are freeloading off a manipulative sleazebag, it is better not to wander about his house in your underpants, in case there are hidden cameras. And yet this highly intelligent political operator created a trove of self-incriminating evidence and left it all in the care of a convicted paedophile.