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Olly Robbins’ account of Mandelson vetting piles pressure on Starmer

Olly Robbins, the former top official at the Foreign Office, said No 10 took a “dismissive” attitude to vetting, and Mandelson was given access to the Foreign Office building and to “higher-classification briefings” before

Olly Robbins says he faced ‘constant pressure’ to get Mandelson in post

Olly Robbins says he faced ‘constant pressure’ to get Mandelson in post The sacked senior civil servant Oliver Robbins has said he was subject to “constant pressure” when he arrived in the Foreign Office

Peter Mandelson scandal: the key questions that remain unanswered

Olly Robbins was permanent secretary of the Foreign Office around the time of Mandelson’s appointment. Photograph: Mark Kerrison/Alamy One source of the foreign affairs select committee said the lack of transparency over Mandelson