"Sir Keir Starmer expressed that he was 'staggered' to find out that civil servants in the Foreign Office had withheld information about red flags in the vetting process for Lord Mandelson."
"Despite claims of 'full due process', opposition MPs are skeptical that neither Sir Keir nor his team could have remained unaware of the UKSV warnings for more than a year."
Sir Keir Starmer is under pressure regarding the vetting of Lord Mandelson as US ambassador. He stated that 'full due process' was followed, but expressed shock at discovering that civil servants withheld information about red flags in the vetting process. Starmer learned of these concerns only last week, despite them being raised in January 2022. Opposition leaders are calling for his resignation, questioning the credibility of his claims that he and his team were unaware of the warnings for over a year.
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