Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer was not aware that the Foreign Office overruled a security vetting process to appoint Lord Peter Mandelson as UK ambassador to Washington “until earlier this week”, the government has said.
The Foreign Office, meanwhile, has said it is "working urgently" to comply with the Prime Minister’s request to establish the facts of how developed vetting was granted.
It came after an investigation by The Guardian reported that Peter Mandelson failed his security vetting process before taking up the role of Washington ambassador, but the decision was overruled by the Foreign Office.
Also on the programme:
– A 10-day ceasefire is declared in Lebanon
– Global energy watchdog warns there is just 6 weeks of jet fuel left in Europe
– And the Artemis II astronauts give their first press conference since their mission around the moon
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