Keir Starmer finally admitted in the Commons yesterday that he should never have appointed Peter Mandelson as UK ambassador to Washington, a climbdown delivered only after documents confirmed Mandelson failed security vetting over his Jeffrey Epstein ties.
The Prime Minister apologised but refused to resign, blaming the Foreign Office for withholding the vetting failure.
Olly Robbins, the sacked top mandarin, faces a grilling from the Foreign Affairs Committee today where he is expected to contradict Number Ten’s version of events.
Opposition leader Kemi Badenoch is already accusing Starmer of misleading Parliament.
Robbins’s testimony could decide whether the Prime Minister survives the week.
