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Revealed: Mandelson vetting warned of ties to senior figures in China, Russia and Israel

file, the then Foreign Office permanent secretary, Olly Robbins, granted Mandelson security clearance anyway. ![Mandelson gestures as he stands behind a seated Donald Trump in the Oval Office, as a smiling JD Vance stands

Olly Robbins’ account of Mandelson vetting piles pressure on Starmer

release documents relating to Mandelson’s vetting through the [humble address process](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/04/peter-mandelson-disclosures-what-is-humble-address-parliament). Starmer has come under intense pressure over the Mandelson scandal, with criticism even from within his own cabinet. Ed Miliband

Mandelson received sensitive Foreign Office briefings before vetting finished

released documents reveal. Declassified emails show the ambassador designate and Richard Moore, the former chief of MI6 – a role known as “C” – had agreed to meet in early January 2025 before Mandelson went to Washington

Senior minister defends decision to withhold some Mandelson files

files A senior minister has defended the government’s decision to withhold information relating to the appointment of [Peter Mandelson](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/peter-mandelson) as Washington ambassador from a powerful parliamentary committee. Darren Jones, the chief

Ministers urged to share Mandelson vetting files with intelligence committee

details of Mandelson’s developed vetting process. As the Guardian [revealed last week](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/16/revealed-mandelson-failed-vetting-but-foreign-office-overruled-decision), United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) decided that Mandelson should be denied clearance but that advice was overruled

MPs raise doubts over missing Mandelson vetting documents

release of papers about Peter Mandelson’s appointment as ambassador to Washington. Despite the volume of information published on Monday, crucial documents were withheld at the request of the [Metropolitan police](https://www.theguardian.com/uk/metropolitan-police)

Five questions left unanswered by the Mandelson files

release totalled more than 1,500 pages. But some questions about the appointment remain unanswered. The files contain more than 160 pages of messages and WhatsApps between Lord Mandelson and government ministers and officials

Mandelson files: What you need to know

files [released in March](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd70lgywgqqo). The documents are still being digested across Westminster. Here is a summary of the key points to have emerged so far. The document dump contains hundreds of internal

Five things we learned from Cat Little’s evidence to MPs about the Mandelson saga

released under the humble address came out last month, it was notable that boxes on a form where Starmer was supposed to put any comments about the appointment were blank. On Thursday, Little went further

Surrey police launch investigation into UK Epstein abuse allegations

detailed in the Epstein files. The force said the claims were historic, dating to the 1980s and 1990s, with one in Surrey and allegations concerning [Berkshire](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/berkshire) understood to relate to the Windsor

Second batch of Mandelson files won't be published this month

released after Parliament's upcoming recess to give MPs "sufficient time to review the material". Jones gave the update in the House of Commons after the committee of MPs reviewing the documents said some files

Robbins says officials considered withholding Mandelson vetting files from parliament

file as existing in a “hermetically sealed box”, adding: “To open that box is to do something that has long-term, damaging and chilling implications for UK national security. I will not hide from