Sir Olly Robbins is set to answer questions from MPs on Tuesday over allegations he failed to inform Sir Keir Starmer that Lord Peter Mandelson had failed his security vetting. The former mandarin was ...

Sacked civil servant says No 10 pushed Foreign Office to find diplomatic role for Matthew Doyle without informing foreign secretary Downing Street pushed the Foreign Office to find a diplomatic role ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Who is Olly Robbins? Former top civil servant to give evidence after being sacked by Starmer over Mandelson vetting scandal Sir ...

A former deputy cabinet secretary has said the prime minister threw Olly Robbins “under the bus” in the wake of the Lord Peter Mandelson’s vetting revelations. Sir Keir Starmer fired the Foreign ...

What questions will sacked head of the Foreign Office be asked, and what might they mean for the PM’s future? On Monday, Keir Starmer testified in front of the Commons about what he knew about the ...

Sir Olly was sacked this week after Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper lost confidence in him. Sir Olly Robbins was “thrown under the bus” when he was sacked from his ...

What do I think really happened with Mandelson and vetting? In October, November and December 2024, Number 10 indicated it wanted to appoint Peter Mandelson as Ambassador to Washington. It was ...

SIR Keir Starmer was plunged deeper into crisis yesterday after an ex-mandarin told of “constant pressure” from No10 to approve Peter Mandelson’s security vetting. Axed Foreign Office chief Sir Olly ...

“British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has no plans to resign over revelations that his scandal-tainted pick for U.K. Ambassador to Washington was appointed despite failing security checks,” officials ...

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The former lead civil servant at the Foreign Office, sacked by the prime minister and foreign secretary last week, will give his side of the story in Parliament this morning. Sir Olly Robbins, who had ...

Keir Starmer has sacked Foreign Office chief Sir Olly Robbins over the Peter Mandelson vetting scandal. The Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary are understood to have lost confidence in the top ...