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Keir Starmer to face vote on Mandelson vetting scandal as key figures give evidence to MPs - UK politics live

Starmer’s former chief of staff, gives evidence to the foreign affairs committee. *Noon:* Downing Street holds a lobby briefing. *After 12.40pm:* Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, opens the debate

Starmer to face MPs for first time since Olly Robbins’ Mandelson evidence – UK politics live

Kemi Badenoch](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/kemi-badenoch), the Conservative leader, was trying to nail Starmer with the charge that he lied to parliament. She failed, because all the evidence suggests he didn’t. In his statement

Call for vote on inquiry into claims Starmer lied over Mandelson dismissed by Labour grandees – UK politics live

Kemi Badenoch is trying to get Lindsay Hoyle, the speaker, to give MPs a vote on a proposal to get the Commons privileges committee to investigate allegations that Keir Starmer lied to MPs in statements

Labour figures criticise calls for inquiry into PM's Mandelson claims

Kemi Badenoch said Sir Keir Starmer had misled Parliament "multiple times" on the subject. She urged Labour MPs to "look into their consciences" and back a new inquiry by the Privileges Committee. Labour MP Dame

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

Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader. Earlier this year, she secured a [“humble address”](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/04/peter-mandelson-disclosures-what-is-humble-address-parliament) motion demanding that the government publish all the documents relating to Mandelson’s appointment. Technically a petition

Starmer should face Commons inquiry over Mandelson vetting, says Ed Davey

debate a motion on Monday to open a privileges committee inquiry. Johnson resigned as an MP in 2023 after that committee found he had deliberately misled parliament. Downing Street says the prime minister

Olly Robbins’ account of Mandelson vetting piles pressure on Starmer

Starmer had appointed Mandelson before Robbins took up his role at the Foreign Office, and also before security vetting had taken place, with senior officials telling the Guardian it was clear to them that

Chris Mason: PM facing awkward hours ahead as Mandelson questions remain

Starmer's wishes. So perhaps there was a sense that the security vetting didn't reveal much more than was already known, convention said it shouldn't be passed on anyway, plus

Labour claims Reform UK won’t protect women, as poll suggests Farage’s party heading for ‘seismic’ wins in May – UK politics live

debate on abortion limits** > > Nigel Farage has described the current 24-week abortion limit as “utterly ludicrous” and called for Parliament to revisit it - raising concerns about rolling back long-established reproductive rights. > > **2. Reform

No 10 had 'dismissive attitude' to Mandelson vetting, says sacked Foreign Office chief

Starmer. But in front of MPs, Sir Olly defended his actions, insisting he had followed the proper process while under "constant pressure" from No 10 to get Lord Mandelson in post. No 10 denied claims

Starmer could have been told about Mandelson’s vetting failure, claims No 10 with release of briefing paper – UK politics live

debate in 1979 was a terminal moment for his premiership, but that vote was not decided by what he said. There seems to be little chance that Keir Starmer may be finished off by what

Robbins's revelations are a dangerous moment for Starmer

Starmer ends. In his nearly two-and-a-half hour-evidence session, Sir Olly - his voice at one point cracking under emotional strain - offered up an at times devastating account of Downing Street's relentless