{"id":335663,"date":"2026-04-17T18:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/tories-claim-starmer-lied-over-mandelson-appointment\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T18:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:00:06","slug":"tories-claim-starmer-lied-over-mandelson-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/tories-claim-starmer-lied-over-mandelson-appointment\/","title":{"rendered":"Tories claim Starmer lied over Mandelson appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/b0EXoKeBssA\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Tories claim Starmer lied over Mandelson appointment\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b0EXoKeBssA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Keir Starmer is once again fighting to save his political career, after saying he was not told Mandelson had failed security vetting ahead of his appointment as US ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>So what really happened? Is this a failure of leadership or does it point to a deeper rot inside Westminster? And either way, can Starmer survive it?<\/p>\n<p>On the latest episode of The Fourcast, Krishnan Guru-Murthy was joined by Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee and Conservative MP Alicia Kearns, former chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.<\/p>\n<p>A Downing Street spokesman told Channel 4 News: \u201cThe Foreign Office have run this vetting process, and at no point, at any point in any part of this process was anyone in Number 10, PM or otherwise, informed by the Foreign Office that the recommendation of UK Security Vetting was for him not to pass his developed vetting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keir Starmer is once again fighting to save his political career, after saying he was not told Mandelson had failed security vetting ahead of his appointment as US ambassador. So what really happened? Is this a failure of leadership or does it point to a deeper rot inside Westminster? And either way, can Starmer survive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":335664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128813],"tags":[128931,128831,128932],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-335663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-channel-4-news","tag-keir","tag-once","tag-starmer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tories claim Starmer lied over Mandelson appointment | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Tories claim Starmer lied over Mandelson appointment for free, here on News ISC. 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