{"id":335651,"date":"2026-04-17T15:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/starmer-says-it-is-staggering-and-unforgivable-he-was-not-told-mandelson-failed-vetting\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:00:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:00:44","slug":"starmer-says-it-is-staggering-and-unforgivable-he-was-not-told-mandelson-failed-vetting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/starmer-says-it-is-staggering-and-unforgivable-he-was-not-told-mandelson-failed-vetting\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer says it is \u2018staggering\u2019 and \u2018unforgivable\u2019 he was not told Mandelson failed vetting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/YY6ntUAs-dA\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Starmer says it is \u2018staggering\u2019 and \u2018unforgivable\u2019 he was not told Mandelson failed vetting\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YY6ntUAs-dA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The prime minister was responding to Guardian revelations that Peter Mandelson failed his security clearance but the decision was overruled by the Foreign Office to ensure he could take up his post as ambassador to the US. <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>Sir Olly Robbins, the UK Foreign Office\u2019s top civil servant, has already been forced out of his post overnight and there are calls from opposition parties for the prime minister himself to resign. <\/p>\n<p>Starmer is in Paris to chair a gathering of world leaders on the opening of the strait of Hormuz as the revelations sink in in Westminster and Whitehall<\/p>\n<p>Revealed: Mandelson failed vetting but Foreign Office overruled decision \u25ba https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/apr\/16\/revealed-mandelson-failed-vetting-but-foreign-office-overruled-decision<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian publishes independent journalism, made possible by supporters. 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Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1 Sir Olly Robbins, the UK Foreign Office\u2019s top civil servant, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":335652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128995],"tags":[129006,129005,137562],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-335651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guardian-news","tag-minister","tag-prime","tag-responding"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Starmer says it is \u2018staggering\u2019 and \u2018unforgivable\u2019 he was not told Mandelson failed vetting | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Starmer says it is \u2018staggering\u2019 and \u2018unforgivable\u2019 he was not told Mandelson failed vetting for free, here on News ISC. 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