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Labour](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour) history. Olly Robbins, the top Foreign Office official sacked by Starmer, [told MPs on Tuesday](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/21/olly-robbins-account-mandelson-vetting-piles-pressure-on-starmer) that No 10 had created an “atmosphere of pressure” that made it impossible
allegedly, to the prime minister or other members of the cabinet, Paul knew it needed to be in the public domain. Once it was, he predicted there would be very significant ramifications: for Keir Starmer
alleged to have allowed his officials to bypass normal security vetting procedures to install the Labour veteran Peter Mandelson as ambassador to Washington, as [revealed by a Guardian investigation](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/16/revealed-mandelson-failed-vetting-but-foreign-office-overruled-decision) last week
Labour](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour) MP, about whether officials had resisted sharing Mandelson’s vetting file “potentially as part of some cover-up” after the Cabinet Office obtained the document in late March this year. Robbins
response to which the mandarin would artfully deploy the most astonishing sophistry to avoid blame or get his own way. Jim Hacker, the largely clueless yet ambitious politician played by the late Paul Eddington, rarely
Labour figures from across rival factions have begun circulating informal proposals for an [“orderly transition” of power](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/26/keir-starmer-vows-lead-labour-general-election-mandelson-vetting) away from Keir Starmer, the Guardian understands, shifting their discussions from whether the prime minister