Search

Top Cabinet Office official to give evidence to MPs about Peter Mandelson’s vetting – UK politics live

Peter Mandelson](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/peter-mandelson) vetting controversy. The Little hearing is unlikely to be as revelatory as the Olly Robbins session on Tuesday. But Little is a key figure in this story, for two reasons

Ministers urged to share Mandelson vetting files with intelligence committee

appointment as ambassador to the US. The motion made an exemption for documents “prejudicial to UK national security or international relations”, which would be given to the Intelligence and Security Committee, a trusted nine-person

Naming Mandelson as ambassador before vetting was mistake, minister says

Peter Mandelson](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/peter-mandelson) as the UK’s ambassador to the US before he was security vetted for the role, one of Keir Starmer’s senior ministers has said before the prime minister

Mandelson scandal is biggest crisis for diplomatic service in decades, says ex-Foreign Office chief

Peter Mandelson [failed his security vetting](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/17/keir-starmer-kept-in-dark-peter-mandelson-vetting-two-top-civil-servants) in January 2025, during the process to appoint him as ambassador the US. Robbins is said to have known about Mandelson’s failure to pass

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

ambassador to Washington, Ed Davey has said. The Liberal Democrat leader called for the prime minister to be investigated by the privileges committee to determine whether he committed contempt of parliament, an offence that

Keir Starmer says it is unforgivable he was not told Mandelson failed vetting

ambassador to Washington. The prime minister said he was “furious” about what had happened, as he insisted he had not known that security officials had initially recommended that Mandelson be denied clearance. Speaking on Friday

Ministers speak out in cabinet meeting over Starmer’s sacking of Olly Robbins

Peter Mandelson vetting scandal as they warned him not to [alienate the civil service](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/21/anger-whitehall-civil-service-olly-robbins-sacked-keir-starmer), sources have told the Guardian. Several ministers spoke out about the decision to sack Robbins during a gloomy

Officials debate withholding Mandelson vetting documents from parliament

Peter Mandelson had [failed security vetting](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/16/revealed-mandelson-failed-vetting-but-foreign-office-overruled-decision) before he assumed the role of US ambassador, the Guardian can reveal. Any such decision could amount to an extraordinary breach of a parliamentary vote which