🏛️ Politics 21h ago · Ethan Croft

Nine things we learned from Starmer’s Mandelson statement

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Today, the Prime Minister addressed the House of Commons following the revelation that Peter Mandelson failed security vetting before he was sent to Washington as British ambassador. Keir Starmer found out about this last Tuesday (14 April) and initiated a fact-finding exercise to discover what had happened. On Thursday (16 April), the Guardian reported on Mandelson’s vetting failure. No 10 has repeatedly said that neither the PM nor any other ministers were told of Mandelson’s failure to pass v

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