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Robbins says officials considered withholding Mandelson vetting files from parliament

Peter Mandelson’s secretive vetting documents from parliament. Robbins, who was sacked by Keir Starmer as the Foreign Office’s top civil servant last week, appeared to confirm a [report in the Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com

Ministers speak out in cabinet meeting over Starmer’s sacking of Olly Robbins

Peter Mandelson vetting scandal as they warned him not to [alienate the civil service](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/21/anger-whitehall-civil-service-olly-robbins-sacked-keir-starmer), sources have told the Guardian. Several ministers spoke out about the decision to sack Robbins during a gloomy