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clearance.” This is a small but vital part of the chronology – it took a maximum of a day for officials to decide they should overrule the vetting concerns. Those around Starmer may point to this
issues had already been raised with the prime minister, but Whitehall, the civil service, knew of Sir Keir Starmer's wishes. So perhaps there was a sense that the security vetting didn't reveal much