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Revealed: Mandelson failed vetting but Foreign Office overruled decision

Yvette Cooper.](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6ae445c8b51a60c8ba55663b9094e9e081bad7b1/0_0_1984_1365/master/1984.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none) Yvette Cooper. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA “Peter Mandelson’s security vetting

More than £1bn pledged for Sudan as humanitarian crisis deepens

Yvette Cooper.](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/680a11e60534744fbdaaea1404b1765d0125c4e0/1189_251_4438_3551/master/4438.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none) Delegates, including Germany’s foreign minister, Johann Wadephul (left), and the UK foreign

Foreign Office’s top civil servant Olly Robbins to leave post over Mandelson vetting row

Yvette Cooper have lost confidence in the civil servant. The Guardian [revealed on Thursday](https://www.theguardian.com

Chris Mason: Mandelson nightmare haunts Starmer again, as senior figure effectively sacked

Yvette Cooper, to give Sir Olly Robbins the heave ho. We are yet to hear

What is Developed Vetting security clearance at centre of Mandelson row?

Yvette Cooper previously said the vetting process is "independent of ministers who are not informed

Olly Robbins is just the latest: a guide to the high-profile exits under Starmer’s tenure

Yvette Cooper, lost confidence in him. ## Ministers 1. --- ### Angela Rayner Rayner was deputy prime minister

UK to call for end to Sudan bloodshed at Berlin talks on third anniversary of war

Yvette Cooper](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/yvette-cooper), will urge Sudan’s warring parties to “cease bloodshed” during

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

Yvette Cooper. Thornberry asked what security concerns were raised during the vetting process and what

Netanyahu says there is no ceasefire in Lebanon as Israel launches fresh strikes

Yvette Cooper, described them](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/09/lebanon-us-iran-ceasefire-deal-yvette-cooper) as “deeply damaging”, adding that failure to include