BBC: The former top official at the Foreign Office, Sir Olly Robbins, says No 10 had a “dismissive approach” to Lord Mandelson’s vetting…
Robbins tells the Foreign Affairs Select Committee there was an “atmosphere of pressure” and a “very strong expectation” from No 10 that Mandelson should be “in post and in America” as quickly as possible
It comes after Keir Starmer said officials made a “deliberate decision” not to tell him that Mandelson had failed security vetting…