Keir Starmer's 'difficulty' with Peter Mandelson just got a bit deeper.... it transpires that he actually failed the (newly enhanced) security vetting, but this failure was over-ruled by the Foreign Office (one must suspect at the behest of Starmer).
Moreover, there's now a suspicion that Starmer misled Parliament on the character of the vetting process between the announcement of the appointment & Mandelson actually being appointed.
One more unforced error!
#politics
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/16/revealed-mandelson-failed-vetting-but-foreign-office-overruled-decision
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