LIBERAL Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has described the Prime Minister’s appointment of Peter Mandelson as “a catastrophic failure of judgement” and said his party will be pushing for answers in Parliament.

Sir Ed told GB News: “What we’re trying to do today is to shed a lot more light on all that, the fact that he was appointed in the first place.

“I think the public want to have answers to their questions, and we’ve asked through this debate, a humble address, is to get the all the information, the due diligence, the vetting correspondence between ministers that led to the decision to appoint Andrew in the first place, including correspondence with Peter Mandelson.”

He added: “There are absolutely questions about the Prime Minister’s judgement. I was surprised when he was appointed in the first place, given his track record of having to resign or be sacked from a number of offices.

“But the fact that the Prime Minister has admitted that he knew that Mandelson continued his relationship with Epstein even after Epstein had been convicted, become a convicted pedophile, raises huge questions about the Prime Minister’s judgement.

“And then you add to that, his decision to appoint Matthew Doyle, Lord Doyle, to the House of Lords, I think it’s a catastrophic failure of judgement by the Prime Minister.”

Asked if he had an obsession with Nigel Farage, he said: “I don’t want Donald Trump’s America to become Farage’s Britain. Donald Trump is a disaster for his country, both economically and he’s damaging our country too.

“And if you look at the awful things that are happening in America, Nigel Farage wants to repeat them here, Reform wants to repeat them here.

“So for example, you look at what’s happening in Minnesota, there are volunteer midwives helping women have their babies at home, rather than having to go to hospital because these ICE agents, which Nigel Farage wants here, are going into hospital because it’s the easiest way for them to decide who they don’t like and then penalise.

“I think that sort of barbarity is not something that is true to British values, And so we will oppose that.”