LIVE: Keir Starmer delivers urgent statement on Peter Mandelson
PM: Unforgivable vetting advice not passed on to me
Starmer: expressed anger that he wasn’t told about vetting. Procedures now changed.
Starmer: Relevant files weren’t shared with me
PM: Foreign Office gave clearance despite vetting advice
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has layed out further details in a statement in the House of Commons. This on the “unforgivable” error by officials in not telling him Peter Mandelson had failed his security vetting.
Starmer faces fresh criticism from opposition leaders over Mandelson row.
This as the opposition calls for Starmer’s resignation – conservative Kemi Badenoch has also said she is considering “every parliamentary option” for removing the PM.
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