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ambassador despite the concerns of vetting officials. Olly Robbins, the former top official at the Foreign Office, said No 10 took a “dismissive” attitude to vetting, and Mandelson was given access to the Foreign Office
ambassador to the United States. But there are some key questions that remain unanswered. The PM says he only found out this week that Lord Mandelson had failed [developed vetting](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj0n5700nrpo). Questions were
details of the vetting, which are highly intrusive and personal, as this would undermine the process. He is due to give evidence to the Commons Foreign Affairs Commitee on Tuesday morning. Labour MP Dame Emily
ambassador to Lebanon and Panama and was appointed t[he Foreign Office’s chief property and security officer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/22/ian-collard-the-foreign-office-insider-who-may-be-key-to-the-mandelson-scandal) in March 2023. Robbins said Collard briefed him on the vetting findings that deemed
ambassador to the US. It comes after MPs voted to force the release of documents about his appointment to the job, from which he was sacked last year following revelations about the extent
ambassador to the US, is likely to face questions about whether he put pressure on civil servants to speed up the vetting. It comes after former senior Foreign Office civil servant Sir Olly Robbins accused
detail about Lord Mandelson's vetting should be included in the cache. In other words, there was the prospect it might not be, and not long later it did then see the light
process at the time, but conceded there were some "time pressures" on the Foreign Office to confirm him ahead of Donald Trump's return to the US presidency. On the departure of Sir Olly, Lammy
ambassador to Washington, but rejected mounting calls to resign. Starmer told the UK Parliament on Monday that, while the appointment was a mistake, he would have withdrawn the decision had he known the Foreign Office
ambassador without the Foreign Office revealing it had overruled the decision to fail his vetting. The scandal, [first revealed by the Guardian last week](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/16/revealed-mandelson-failed-vetting-but-foreign-office-overruled-decision), has already led to the sacking
details of it. "It seems strange that a Labour prime minister comes to Scotland during an election campaign and doesn't appear to be campaigning with the Labour Party. "It's almost
detailed record that would confirm his account of this conversation, so we are left speculating how something so seemingly black and white – or glaring red, as the UKSV file had it – became so fuzzy
Mandelson was sacked as ambassador last year after the emergence of new revelations about the extent of his relationship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In February, MPs voted to force the government
ambassador to the US are being "withheld" from MPs, the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) has said. Lord Beamish, chair of the committee tasked with reviewing the documents, said Lord Mandelson's vetting file
process which has been so damagingly revealed in the files, but rather what everyone in the Labour government thinks of each other. Many of the most withering assessments have come from Mandelson himself. “Keir
ambassador, the Guardian can reveal. Any such decision could amount to an extraordinary breach of a parliamentary vote which ordered the release of “all papers” relevant to Mandelson’s appointment. The Guardian has revealed that
ambassador to the US two months earlier, after the disclosure of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails. MPs on the cross-party foreign affairs select committee were grilling the most senior civil servants involved in Mandelson