There are moments in public life when someone carefully lifts the lid to reveal what really happens in the corridors of power and show us that the gruesome details are even worse than we thought.

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 ...

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 ...

Top civil servant Sir Olly Robbins has been sacked after his department did not inform the prime minister that Lord Mandelson had failed security vetting for the role of US ambassador. Opposition ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Sacked Foreign Office civil servant claims he was following Prime Minister’s orders Nick Gutteridge is The Telegraph’s Chief Political Correspondent. He has covered one of the most turbulent periods ...

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday sacked the country’s top civil servant in the Foreign Office over the Mandelson vetting scandal as he himself faces pressure to resign. On Thursday night, it ...

Sir Keir Starmer sacked the top civil servant at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) over the latest revelation that Lord Peter Mandelson was appointed US ambassador despite ...

Starmer says ministers were in the dark, but friends of former top civil servant suggest it was a case of them looking the other way UK politics live: latest news updates Fiddling with his reading ...