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Peter Mandelson scandal: the key questions that remain unanswered

Cabinet Office, but the final decision rested with the Foreign Office. After twice interviewing Mandelson and scrutinising his background, officials in UKSV completed their assessment on 28 January. A document summarising the agency’s findings

UK’s next ambassador to Japan may be called to give evidence in Mandelson inquiry

Cabinet Office, which is collatingdocuments to be released to the public under the terms of the humble address, a parliamentary motion passed in February requiring the release of “all papers” relating to Mandelson’s appointmnet

Mandelson received sensitive Foreign Office briefings before vetting finished

files say. Officials eventually decided clearance was needed. The documents published on Mondayshed new light on the appointment of Mandelson as the UK’s ambassador to Washington. But despite [running to about 1,500 pages

Starmer was kept in dark about Mandelson’s vetting by two top civil servants

Cabinet Office spokesperson said that, after receiving the UKSV document, Little “immediately undertook a series of expedited checks in order to be in a sound position to share the document, or the fact

Olly Robbins’ account of Mandelson vetting piles pressure on Starmer

access to the Foreign Office building and to “higher-classification briefings” before he was granted security clearance. In more than two hours of precisely worded and detailed testimony to the foreign affairs select committee

Five things we learned from Cat Little’s evidence to MPs about the Mandelson saga

Cabinet Office to ask whether, as a member of the House of Lords, Mandelson needed full vetting. The advice was that while it was ultimately up to the Foreign Office, vetting was needed, she added

Revealed: Mandelson vetting warned of ties to senior figures in China, Russia and Israel

Cabinet Office’s work said they believed that officials had been heavily redacting and even seeking to withhold files to avoid political embarrassment. One of the sources said UKSV’s crucial nine-page summary file

What is Developed Vetting security clearance at centre of Mandelson row?

access sensitive material and be granted the highest level of security clearance. It is carried out by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV), a specialist agency within the Cabinet Office, and applies to thousands of relatively

Monday briefing: How is it possible the prime minister didn’t know about Mandelson’s vetting failure?

files released in the US. On 10 September Starmer said in parliament he had “confidence in him”, and on 11 September a Downing Street spokesperson told the media that Foreign Office vetting had been done

Partygate v Mandelson: Keir Starmer faces attack from his own playbook

access documents relating to Brexit or to see the security advice given before Johnson elevated Evgeny Lebedev, the newspaper magnate, to the House of Lords. Ministers have typically used national security exemptions to prevent having