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Robbins says officials considered withholding Mandelson vetting files from parliament

Mandelson’s appointment, including some related to vetting. It also raises questions about whether Darren Jones, the prime minister’s chief secretary, misled the public when he flatly denied the story. Jones, a close ally

Sacked Foreign Office chief Olly Robbins to face MPs’ questions over Mandelson vetting – UK politics live

Darren Jones, the chief secretary to the PM. *10am:* Executives from TikTok, Meta, Roblox, and academics give evidence to the Commons education committee on screen time and social media. *11.30am:* Yvette Cooper, the foreign

Olly Robbins and Mandelson’s vetting: what did he do, why – and who knew?

appointment had already been announced. The vetting was the last bit of paperwork. “Was his first big act really going to be to tell the prime minister that this could not go ahead?” they asked

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

Mandelson’s appointment. Amid an impasse among officials, some in government are said to have argued that precedent should be set aside to disclose the UKSV documents to the committee and anything short of that