{"id":336789,"date":"2026-04-22T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/sacked-official-olly-robbins-hits-back-at-starmers-team-over-mandelson-vetting-crisis\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:00:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:00:31","slug":"sacked-official-olly-robbins-hits-back-at-starmers-team-over-mandelson-vetting-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/sacked-official-olly-robbins-hits-back-at-starmers-team-over-mandelson-vetting-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacked official Olly Robbins hits back at Starmer&#8217;s team over Mandelson vetting crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/8T8FVMGPYfs\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Sacked official Olly Robbins hits back at Starmer's team over Mandelson vetting crisis\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8T8FVMGPYfs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Downing Street has denied that it created an &quot;atmosphere of pressure&quot; with regard to vetting Peter Mandelson, rejecting claims by sacked Foreign Office official Sir Olly Robbins.<\/p>\n<p>The former top official said on Tuesday that No 10 held a &quot;dismissive approach&quot; towards the vetting, and that the Foreign Office found itself under &quot;constant chasing&quot; from Downing Street officials.<\/p>\n<p>He was speaking while giving evidence to MPs over his handling of the vetting process for Mandelson&#8217;s appointment as US ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether No 10 recognised that description, Sir Keir Starmer&#8217;s spokesperson responded: &quot;No&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I reject that characterisation,&quot; the spokesperson said, &quot;I think there&#8217;s clearly a difference between asking for updates on an appointment process and the idea of being dismissive about vetting.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I would draw a distinction between the idea of pressure and being kept informed about the process and the progress of the appointment,&quot; they added.<\/p>\n<p>They said that the prime minister viewed Sir Olly as a &quot;man of integrity and professionalism&quot; who had made an &quot;error of judgement&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follow ITV News\u00a0on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram:\u00a0https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook:\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downing Street has denied that it created an &quot;atmosphere of pressure&quot; with regard to vetting Peter Mandelson, rejecting claims by sacked Foreign Office official Sir Olly Robbins. The former top official said on Tuesday that No 10 held a &quot;dismissive approach&quot; towards the vetting, and that the Foreign Office found itself under &quot;constant chasing&quot; from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":336790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128812],"tags":[129982,131863,131371],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-336789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-itv-news","tag-denied","tag-downing","tag-street"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sacked official Olly Robbins hits back at Starmer&#039;s team over Mandelson vetting crisis | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Sacked official Olly Robbins hits back at Starmer&#039;s team over Mandelson vetting crisis for free, here on News ISC. 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