Sacked Foreign Office chief describes ‘pressure’ from No 10 and ‘dismissive’ attitude to Mandelson vetting

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…