{"id":13263,"date":"2026-04-21T16:06:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/13263\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T16:06:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:06:50","slug":"robbins-revelations-leave-starmer-scrambling-the-daily-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/13263\/","title":{"rendered":"Robbins revelations leave Starmer scrambling | The Daily T"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Robbins revelations leave Starmer scrambling | The Daily T\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o4beb48GPoQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nRobbins revelations leave Starmer scrambling | The Daily T<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt\u2019s another bruising day for Keir Starmer as Sir Olly Robbins, the former top Foreign Office official sacked over the Peter Mandelson vetting row, has broken his silence in explosive evidence to MPs &#8211; accusing Number 10 of applying \u201cconstant pressure\u201d to push the appointment through before proper checks were completed.<\/p>\n<p>In a dramatic Committee hearing, Robbins suggested Downing Street didn\u2019t even expect Mandelson to be vetted, failed to consult the Foreign Office before announcing his role as US ambassador, and created an \u201catmosphere of pressure\u201d and \u201cconstant chasing\u201d to get approval over the line. <\/p>\n<p>On today\u2019s Daily T, Camilla Tominey and Tim Stanley dissect the most jaw-dropping moments from Robbins\u2019s testimony and ask what it means for the Prime Minister\u2019s credibility.<\/p>\n<p>And they examine growing unrest within Labour ranks, as senior figure Lord Maurice Glasman becomes one of the first from within to publicly call for Starmer to go, raising the stakes for a leadership crisis that may no longer be containable.<br \/>\n\ud83d\udea8 LIVE EVENT ALERT: The Daily T will be going on the road to London (April 27), Cardiff (April 28), Warwick (April 29) and Worthing (April 30) ahead of May\u2019s critical local elections, where you&#8217;ll have a chance to put your questions to Camilla and Tim.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf9f\ufe0f Tickets are limited, book yours now!: https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/politics\/0\/live-event-the-daily-t-on-the-road\/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_daily-t-on-the-road\/<br \/>\nYou, 14:56<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Subscribe to The Telegraph: https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/customer\/subscription\/store\/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_dailytpodcast<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Get the latest headlines: https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_dailytpodcast<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Sign up to The Telegraph&#8217;s free new daily newsletter, From the Editor, bringing you the latest news, features and analysis from the Telegraph newsroom: https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/customer\/secure\/newsletter\/from-the-editor\/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_dailytpodcast<\/p>\n<p>#KeirStarmer, #OllyRobbins, #PeterMandelson, #UKPolitics, #DowningStreet, #ForeignOffice, #PoliticalNews, #BreakingPolitics, #GovernmentPressure, #VettingRow, #PoliticalScandal, #UKGovernment, #LeadershipCrisis, #Accountability, #MPs, #CommitteeHearing, #Diplomacy, #USAmbassador, #DailyT, #CamillaTominey, #TimStanley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robbins revelations leave Starmer scrambling | The Daily T It\u2019s another bruising day for Keir Starmer as Sir&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[1297,11768,3200,17767,3840,14718,17762,263,17766,17765,31,338,339,17432,17764,14710,8849,15335,15092,17760,340,337,10154,341,267,17761,17763,235],"class_list":["post-13263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-telegraph","tag-british-government","tag-camilla-tominey","tag-daily-t-podcast","tag-diplomacy-row","tag-downing-street","tag-foreign-office","tag-government-pressure","tag-keir-starmer","tag-leadership-scrutiny","tag-mps-hearing","tag-news","tag-news-publisher","tag-newspaper","tag-number-10","tag-parliamentary-committee","tag-peter-mandelson","tag-political-accountability","tag-political-controversy","tag-political-scandal","tag-sir-olly-robbins","tag-telegraph","tag-the-telegraph","tag-tim-stanley","tag-uk-news","tag-uk-politics","tag-us-ambassador-role","tag-vetting-process","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13263","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=13263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}