Starmer battles for Downing Street future amid Mandelson vetting scandal
Prime minister’s statement to MPs will come ahead of testimony from sacked Foreign Office head Olly Robbins
Starmer battles for Downing Street future amid Mandelson vetting scandal
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Judgment day as Starmer faces Commons showdown over Mandelson scandal
Prime minister to deliver high-stakes statement to MPs over vetting controversy that has put his position in peril Keir Starmer will deliver a high-stakes statement to MPs on Monday as he struggles to overcome fears inside his government that the Peter Mandelson vetting scandal could yet cost him his leadership. In what is set to be a dramatic showdown, the prime minister will set out how Mandelson was able to take up his role as UK ambassador without the Foreign Office revealing it had overruled the decision to fail his vetting. Continue reading...
UK's Lammy signals support for PM Starmer over latest Mandelson row
LONDON, April 18 - Britain's Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy signalled his support for Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Saturday over the ongoing row about the decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States.
Mandelson scandal is biggest crisis for diplomatic service in decades, says ex-Foreign Office chief
Simon McDonald says Olly Robbins was ‘thrown under a bus’ by the prime minister and the decision feels wrong The Peter Mandelson security vetting scandal is the biggest crisis for the diplomatic service in decades, a former Foreign Office chief has said. Simon McDonald, who was the permanent under-secretary of the government department until 2020, has spoken out in defence of Oliver Robbins, saying the civil servant was “thrown under a bus” by the prime minister, Keir Starmer, when he was dismissed from his role on Thursday. Continue reading...
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