Starmer: 'I should not have appointed Mandelson'

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"I apologise again to the victims of the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein who were clearly failed by my decision."

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer addressed MPs in the Commons about Peter Mandelson's vetting for his job as US ambassador - saying a "deliberate decision" was made by officials involved in the vetting process to withhold telling him Mandelson failed the security vetting.

Starmer says he is now ordering a review of the vetting process.

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