Pressure on Starmer grows over Mandelson vetting despite ousting of Foreign Office official – UK politics live
PM said he was ‘staggered’ not to have been told that Peter Mandelson had failed his security vetting before becoming ambassador to the US
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Keir Starmer is facing “judgment day” according to senior government figures over the failure in Peter Mandelson’s vetting process.
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