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Olly Robbins and Mandelson’s vetting: what did he do, why – and who knew?

Keir Starmer](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer) emphasised that the politicians had been left in the dark. “That I wasn’t told that he’d failed security vetting when I was telling parliament that due process

Starmer tells MPs Foreign Office has been stripped of power to overrule vetting

Keir Starmer has told MPs, as he sought to set out his side of events in a politically crucial statement in parliament. Saying to jeers that he accepted it appeared “incredible” he and other ministers

‘Self-serving stuff’: anger remains high in Whitehall over Olly Robbins sacking

Keir Starmer’s decision to sack the senior Foreign Office civil servant. “It’s just total self-serving, narrow, selfish, political endgame stuff,” said one supporter of Robbins, who was dismissed for failing to tell