🏛️ Politics Apr 28, 2026 · Ethan Croft

Starmer relies on fed-up but not mutinous MPs

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In written evidence yesterday evening, the former head of security at the Foreign Office, Ian Collard, concurred with Olly Robbins about pressure from No 10 to approve Mandelson and corroborated the rest of Robbins’s account.



Today there are two appearances before the FAC. As I write, Philip Barton, former permanent secretary of the Foreign Office, is before the committee. In the first few minutes of his appearance, he revealed that it was not his decision to leave the department in January 2

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