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How safe is Starmer’s premiership after his Mandelson vetting statement to MPs?

House of Commons. That seemed too painful an admission for Starmer to make, when he had so expertly prosecuted Boris Johnson for misleading

What Starmer said, and didn’t say, in the Commons about the Mandelson saga

Starmer believes he did not mislead MPs > double quotation markNo I did not mislead the House of Commons

Badenoch accuses PM of misleading MPs over Mandelson vetting

misleading the House of Commons, after a report suggested Lord Mandelson failed his security vetting for the role of US ambassador. [The Guardian newspaper reported](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/16/revealed-mandelson-failed-vetting-but-foreign-office-overruled-decision) that the Foreign Office overruled the vetting

Officials deliberately withheld Mandelson vetting result from me, Starmer says

Starmer has accused officials in the Foreign Office of deliberately and repeatedly withholding the fact Lord Mandelson initially failed security vetting for the role of US ambassador. Giving a statement to MPs, the prime minister

Five unanswered questions on Keir Starmer’s Mandelson debacle

mislead parliament, even unintentionally? The prime minister told MPs that “full due process” had been followed in appointing Mandelson. Asked if parliament had been misled, even if this was not the PM’s fault

Key points from Starmer's Mandelson statement

Starmer has been in the Commons again defending his actions over the appointment of Lord Mandelson as ambassador to the US. It comes after it emerged the peer was given security clearance for the role