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 ...

A former top civil servant has accused the government of throwing Sir Olly Robbins “under the bus” after he was sacked for overruling security vetting concerns raised about Peter Mandelson. Sir Olly ...

Sir Olly Robbins was “thrown under the bus” when he was sacked from his job as the most senior civil servant in the Foreign Office, a former Whitehall mandarin has said. Lord Simon McDonald, ...

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 ...

Peter Mandelson was seen walking his dog in London on Friday as the row over his appointment continued in Westminster The chief Foreign Office official ousted over the decision to grant Peter ...

The senior civil servant at the heart of the row over Peter Mandelson’s vetting is expected to answer questions in public before a committee of MPs next week.

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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 ...

The Mandelson scandal continues to metastasise throughout Whitehall. We now know, from reporting in the Guardian and largely confirmed by Downing Street, that Peter Mandelson was initially refused ...

The Foreign Office's top civil servant is leaving his post after his department did not inform the prime minister that Lord Mandelson had failed security vetting for the role of US ambassador. The BBC ...

There has been a steady succession of departures by ministers and senior officials in the past two years The exit of the top civil servant Olly Robbins from the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and ...