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Officials deliberately withheld Mandelson vetting result from me, Starmer says

Starmer has accused officials in the Foreign Office of deliberately and repeatedly withholding the fact Lord Mandelson initially failed security vetting for the role of US ambassador. Giving a statement to MPs, the prime minister

No 10 considered giving Doyle ambassador role, sacked official says

minister's then-director of communications Lord Doyle an ambassador role, the former top civil servant at the Foreign Office has said. Sir Olly Robbins made the claim while giving evidence to the Commons Foreign

In Peter Mandelson evidence, Cat Little had the best weapon: an audit trail

senior civil servants. Little cut a very different figure to Olly Robbins, her recently departed counterpart at the Foreign Office who gave evidence to the foreign affairs select committee two days earlier. Whereas Robbins exuded

Robbins says officials considered withholding Mandelson vetting files from parliament

senior officials in multiple departments about whether or not the document needed to be shared with parliament. He described the file as existing in a “hermetically sealed box”, adding: “To open that