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Revealed: Mandelson failed vetting but Foreign Office overruled decision

Peter Mandelson failed his security vetting clearance but the decision was overruled by the Foreign Office to ensure he could take up his post as ambassador to the US, an investigation by the Guardian

Starmer should face Commons inquiry over Mandelson vetting, says Ed Davey

denials. “It is completely preposterous that for us to believe that civil servants would have cleared a political appointee who had failed security vetting,” she told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. “We would

What Starmer said, and didn’t say, in the Commons about the Mandelson saga

Peter Mandelson. The following day … Foreign Office officials made the decision to grant developed vetting clearance.” This is a small but vital part of the chronology – it took a maximum of a day for officials