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'Staggering' I was not told Mandelson failed vetting, says Starmer

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has expressed his shock upon learning that Lord Peter Mandelson failed the initial security vetting process, a fact that neither he nor any other minister had been informed about at the time of Mandelson’s appointment as the UK’s ambassador to the US. The prime minister described the situation as “staggering”…