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Ministers urged to share Mandelson vetting files with intelligence committee

details of Mandelson’s developed vetting process. As the Guardian [revealed last week](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/16/revealed-mandelson-failed-vetting-but-foreign-office-overruled-decision), United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) decided that Mandelson should be denied clearance but that advice was overruled

Starmer rejects calls to quit as pressure mounts over Mandelson vetting

failure to inform him, as prime minister, was “staggering” and “unforgivable”, pledging to “set out all the relevant facts in true transparency” to Parliament on Monday. The beleaguered prime minister said he only found

Foreign secretary concerned ministers not told of Mandelson vetting fears sooner

Peter Mandelson had not passed the vetting, he would never, ever have appointed him ambassador," he said. Lammy, who was foreign secretary at the time, added that neither he nor his advisers had been told

Starmer would have blocked Mandelson role over vetting failure, says Lammy

failure, says Lammy Keir Starmer would have blocked Peter Mandelson from serving as the UK’s ambassador to Washington had he known he failed [security vetting](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/17/what-happens-security-vetting-peter-mandelson), David Lammy has said

Why Starmer still can't move on from the Mandelson mess

Peter Mandelson's links with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein before giving him the job. Those warnings were in the first government report that checked out the Labour peer's background, produced