Keir Starmer in the House of CommonsKeir Starmer was met with ridicule and disbelief from MPs while fielding their questions over why he ever decided to appoint Peter Mandelson to be an ambassador for the US.
It emerged last week that the ex-Labour peer failed security vetting without the prime minister’s knowledge, and was still given the top job in Washington days later.
Starmer sacked Olly Robbins, the top civil servant in the Foreign Office, granting Mandelson clearance without informing them.
Though Mandelson was sacked in September when the depth of his friendship with convicted paedophile
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