Reporter Lewis Denison explains the latest storm engulfing Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
The Foreign Office’s top civil servant, Sir Olly Robbins, will be leaving his post after it emerged the department had overruled a security vetting process to clear Lord Peter Mandelson to become UK ambassador to the US.
It is understood Sir Keir Starmer and Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper have lost confidence in the Foreign Office permanent under-secretary.
On Thursday, the government was forced to say that Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer was not aware that the Foreign Office overruled the vetting process “until earlier this week”.
The Foreign Office had said it is "working urgently" to comply with the Prime Minister’s request to establish the facts of how developed vetting was granted.
Downing Street sources say the Prime Minister is “absolutely furious”.
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