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ambassador for Peter Mandelson has been honoured by King Charles. No reason has yet been given for [James Roscoe’s departure](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/20/british-diplomat-james-roscoe-abruptly-leaves-washington-embassy-post). An investigation is now under way into the leak of discussions
ambassador to Washington, but rejected mounting calls to resign. Starmer told the UK Parliament on Monday that, while the appointment was a mistake, he would have withdrawn the decision had he known the Foreign Office
ambassador to Washington. Despite the volume of information published on Monday, crucial documents were withheld at the request of the [Metropolitan police](https://www.theguardian.com/uk/metropolitan-police) on the grounds that they could “potentially prejudice” an investigation
ambassador to Washington continues. Karl Turner, who lost the [Labour](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour) whip last month [after making a series of interventions](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/31/karl-turner-labour-whip-suspended) criticising Starmer and No 10, has written to the speaker
ambassador. “Before I go into the details, I want to be very clear with this house that while this statement will focus on the process surrounding Peter Mandelson’s vetting and appointment, at the heart
ambassador to Washington. But despite [running to about 1,500 pages](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/01/what-is-new-peter-mandelson-documents), some [crucial documents were withheld](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/01/documents-missing-new-release-mandelson-files), and MPs said many questions still remained unanswered. The documents also revealed
ambassador could easily have chosen to stay with a friend, or hopped in his car to walk the dog in a different park, or [done a Fergie](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02/24/fergie-took-refuge-at-the-worlds-most-exclusive-clinic/) and gone to ground entirely
ambassador. While it united opposition parties including the Liberal Democrats, SNP, Reform and others, there will have been relief in the government that Labour figures such as Angela Rayner opted to keep their powder
ambassador, accusing him of a “cover-up”. It followed a morning of committee meetings in which Morgan McSweeney, the prime minister’s former chief of staff and a confidant of Mandelson, said that
ambassador to the US two months earlier, after the disclosure of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails. MPs on the cross-party foreign affairs select committee were grilling the most senior civil servants involved in Mandelson
ambassador to the US are being "withheld" from MPs, the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) has said. Lord Beamish, chair of the committee tasked with reviewing the documents, said Lord Mandelson's vetting file
ambassador followed "full due process" and his assertion that "no pressure whatsoever" was applied to officials at the Foreign Office. Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch tabled a motion which sought to have