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impact on how he is viewed by his MPs. Here is the agenda for the day. *9am:* Philip Barton, the former permanent secretary at the Foreign Office, gives evidence to the Commons foreign affairs committee
decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the US and a potentially damaging testimony from [Morgan McSweeney](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/morgan-mcsweeney), his former chief of staff. Allies including Richard Hermer, the attorney general, and Jenny
decision not to tell him about the failed vetting as “staggering”. It is a new low point for the relationship between No 10 and the civil service, after the ousting of the relatively new [cabinet