{"id":11200,"date":"2026-04-17T11:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/11200\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T11:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:16:14","slug":"starmer-says-it-is-staggering-and-unforgivable-he-was-not-told-mandelson-failed-vetting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/11200\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer says it is \u2018staggering\u2019 and \u2018unforgivable\u2019 he was not told Mandelson failed vetting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Starmer says it is \u2018staggering\u2019 and \u2018unforgivable\u2019 he was not told Mandelson failed vetting\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YY6ntUAs-dA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nStarmer says it is \u2018staggering\u2019 and \u2018unforgivable\u2019 he was not told Mandelson failed vetting<br \/>\n<br \/>\nKeir Starmer has said it is \u2018staggering\u2019 and \u2018unforgivable\u2019 he was not told that Peter Mandelson had failed vetting. The prime minister was responding to Guardian revelations that Peter Mandelson failed his security vetting clearance but the decision was overruled by the Foreign Office to ensure he could take up his post as ambassador to the US. 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.<br \/>\nStarmer 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starmer says it is \u2018staggering\u2019 and \u2018unforgivable\u2019 he was not told Mandelson failed vetting Keir Starmer has said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[331,14718,269,240,261,263,1432,264,1295,14710,247,8765,15087,385,341,267,15242],"class_list":{"0":"post-11200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-guardian-news","8":"tag-british-politics","9":"tag-foreign-office","10":"tag-gdnpfpnewspolitics","11":"tag-guardian","12":"tag-guardian-news","13":"tag-keir-starmer","14":"tag-kier-starmer","15":"tag-labour","16":"tag-labour-party","17":"tag-peter-mandelson","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-scandal","20":"tag-security-vetting","21":"tag-starmer","22":"tag-uk-news","23":"tag-uk-politics","24":"tag-vetting"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116419823067205789","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}