🏛️ Politics 4h ago · Ethan Croft

Olly Robbins reveals “constant pressure” from No 10 over Mandelson

New Statesman
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The question of where the story of Peter Mandelson goes next, if anywhere, was always going to be settled this morning in the Boothroyd Committee Room of the House of Commons, where Olly Robbins is speaking to parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by Emily Thornberry. Robbins was sacked on Thursday after he lost the confidence of Starmer and Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper over his decision to grant Mandelson developed vetting status despite his failing the vetting procedure, and then

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