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ambassador role. Downing Street says it learned this week that the Foreign Office, which oversaw Mandelson's DV process, granted him clearance "against the recommendation" of the vetting agency. We do not know the specifics
Mandelson](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/peter-mandelson) as ambassador to Washington, Ed Davey has said. The Liberal Democrat leader called for the prime minister to be investigated by the privileges committee to determine whether he committed contempt
ambassador in Washington. Politicians are rarely appointed to UK diplomatic posts and the decision was controversial, not least because Mandelson had twice been forced to resign from government [over separate scandals](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/11/mandelsons-rollercoaster-career-grinds-to-a-final-stop-with-a-scandal-again).
ambassador to the US, just as Boris Johnson lied to MPs about Partygate. That will be quite a challenge; the case for Starmer deliberately misleading MPs [is flimsy](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/apr/27/keir-starmer-peter-mandelson-inquiry-speaker-shoplifting-latest-news-updates?page=with%3Ablock-69ef43ed8f08cdba1e3f9b68#block-69ef43ed8f08cdba1e3f9b68), and the comparison
sacked by Keir Starmer three weeks ago after [the Guardian revealed](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/16/revealed-mandelson-failed-vetting-but-foreign-office-overruled-decision) he had granted Mandelson clearance despite the vetting agency recommending his clearance be denied. Starmer said Robbins’s failure to inform
ambassador to the US, and Mandelson’s communications with ministers and officials, which have to be published as a result of the humble address passed by parliament. It was in this capacity that she discovered
ambassador, Warren Stephens, and his personal trip to Washington in March had failed to move the process forward, the newspaper reported. Speaking of withholding documents, yesterday Cat little, the top civil servant at the Cabinet
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
sacked by [Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer), has said officials were under pressure from Downing Street to get Mandelson to Washington, but said the pressure did not influence his decision to grant him clearance. Robbins
sacked Olly Robbins, the Foreign Office permanent secretary, for not telling him that Mandelson did in effect fail the security vetting. (But technically he “passed”, because as head of the Foreign Office Robbins
ambassador. Darren Jones, the chief secretary to the prime minister, told Sky News’s Trevor Phillips on Sunday show that “no wrongdoing by the prime minister has been proven in relation to Lord Mandelson
ambassador. He expressed regret over his decision to advise Sir Keir to appoint Lord Mandelson, but declined to discuss the issue in detail ahead of [giving evidence to MPs on the Foreign Affairs Committee next
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
sacked Foreign Office head, had granted Mandelson clearance against the advice of security officials – was instead provided to Cat Little by UK Security Vetting, she said. Giving evidence to the Commons foreign affairs committee, Little
ambassador to Washington. The prime minister said he was “furious” about what had happened, as he insisted he had not known that security officials had initially recommended that Mandelson be denied clearance. Speaking on Friday
sack the lead civil servant in the Foreign Office over the Lord Peter Mandelson vetting fiasco. Sir Olly Robbins, who gave evidence to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee of MPs on Tuesday, was fired
ambassadors.” The established process “in retrospect was inadequate”, he said. “That’s why, already, even before the events of the last few days, the government has moved to change that process to make sure that
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 seemed almost dismissive of attempts to make him declare his contacts with officials in foreign governments. “Do you mean literally every foreign national I have ever met?” he asked one member of staff
ambassador in Washington, appeared before the foreign affairs select committee, as many a civil servant embroiled in a crisis has in the past. How was it that Mandelson took up the job, given that vetting