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  1. Mandelson Vetting Row Escalates: Key Official Refuses Evidence, Overruling Claim Surfaces

    Cabinet Office official says Foreign Office stonewalled on Peter Mandelson's vetting documents. Overruling claim surfaces.

    #MandelsonVetting, #ForeignOffice, #CabinetOffice, #SecurityClearance, #UKPolitics

    newsletter.tf/mandelson-vettin

  2. A key official refused to give vetting documents for Peter Mandelson's appointment, a move described as unusual. This is part of a growing row over his security clearance.

    #MandelsonVetting, #ForeignOffice, #CabinetOffice, #SecurityClearance, #UKPolitics
    newsletter.tf/mandelson-vettin

  3. Senior Civil Servant Departs Amid Vetting Controversy

    Olly Robbins leaves Foreign Office after Peter Mandelson's security vetting was overruled. Questions about PM Starmer's knowledge.

    #OllyRobbins, #PeterMandelson, #SecurityVetting, #ForeignOffice, #UKPolitics

    newsletter.tf/head-of-civil-se

  4. The Head of the Foreign Office's civil service has resigned. This follows a controversy where Peter Mandelson was cleared for a US ambassador role despite failing security checks.

    #OllyRobbins, #PeterMandelson, #SecurityVetting, #ForeignOffice, #UKPolitics
    newsletter.tf/head-of-civil-se

  5. STARTER FACES CRITICAL JUNCTURE AMID VETTING FIASCO

    UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is under pressure after revelations about the security vetting of Peter Mandelson, the appointed UK ambassador to Washington. Find out what happened and who is affected.

    #StarmerVetting, #MandelsonAmbassador, #UKPolitics, #SecurityClearance, #ForeignOffice

    newsletter.tf/pm-starmer-ambas

  6. “Mandelson was not made ambassador despite his ties to Epstein but because of them”

    by Ricky And Council Estate Media on Substack

    @uk_politics
    @UKLabour

    “Starmer has the look of a man who is not in control, who is tormented by every excruciating decision he makes, who knows he looks like a fool. It is not hard to join the dots and see that there is more at play, that Starmer was instructed to hire the guy at the heart of the Epstein blackmail ring. We can only speculate about what leverage the Epstein class has over Starmer, but it must be strong. No one would want to harm their own reputation for a guy as loathsome as Peter Mandelson”

    open.substack.com/pub/councile

    #Press #SocialMedia #UK #Starmer #Mandelson #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #Scandal #Ambassdor #CabinetOffice #ForeignOffice #Vetting #Failure #StarmerOut #Labour

  7. Starmer Outraged Over Undisclosed Vetting Failure

    Keir Starmer and Parliament were not told about Lord Mandelson failing security vetting. What happens next for the Foreign Office?

    #MandelsonVetting, #KeirStarmer, #ForeignOffice, #SecurityClearance, #UKPolitics

    newsletter.tf/starmer-unaware-

  8. Starmer Outraged Over Undisclosed Vetting Failure

    Keir Starmer and Parliament were not told about Lord Mandelson failing security vetting. What happens next for the Foreign Office?

    #MandelsonVetting, #KeirStarmer, #ForeignOffice, #SecurityClearance, #UKPolitics

    newsletter.tf/starmer-unaware-

  9. Starmer Outraged Over Undisclosed Vetting Failure

    Keir Starmer and Parliament were not told about Lord Mandelson failing security vetting. What happens next for the Foreign Office?

    #MandelsonVetting, #KeirStarmer, #ForeignOffice, #SecurityClearance, #UKPolitics

    newsletter.tf/starmer-unaware-

  10. Starmer Outraged Over Undisclosed Vetting Failure

    Keir Starmer and Parliament were not told about Lord Mandelson failing security vetting. What happens next for the Foreign Office?

    #MandelsonVetting, #KeirStarmer, #ForeignOffice, #SecurityClearance, #UKPolitics

    newsletter.tf/starmer-unaware-

  11. The Foreign Office's top civil servant was sacked after it was revealed that ministers, including Keir Starmer, were not informed about Lord Mandelson's failed security vetting.

    #MandelsonVetting, #KeirStarmer, #ForeignOffice, #SecurityClearance, #UKPolitics
    newsletter.tf/starmer-unaware-

  12. #UKgov says #OllyRobbins overruled UK Security Vetting, and gave Peter Mandelson #DevelopedVetting status, without telling ministers what #UKSV found. So they fired Robbins. See e.g. The Guardian: archive.ph/sMAc9

    Such deceit of ministers would end the career of any civil servant. But the govt story is that Robbins as head of the #ForeignOffice went completely rogue to tell ministers what they wanted to hear about a political appointment of top diplomat. Not credible.

    #BullShit

    #ukpol

  13. #Mandelson failed vetting to be UK Ambassador, but the #ForeignOffice #FCDO overruled the decision. This was covered up.

    So who lied?

    Foreign Secretary David #Lammy?
    Or PM Keir #Starmer?
    Or both of them?

    There's just no way a civil servant would hsve withheld this from ministers. It's just too big. Far far too big. Some minister knew.

    Which of these large heads gets the chop?

    My hunch is that Lammy will be the fall guy, but I'm not betting on it.

  14. #Mandelson failed vetting to be UK Ambassador, but the #ForeignOffice #FCDO overruled the decision. This was covered up.

    So who lied?

    Foreign Secretary David #Lammy?
    Or PM Keir #Starmer?
    Or both of them?

    There's just no way a civil servant would hsve withheld this from ministers. It's just too big. Far far too big. Some minister knew.

    Which of these large heads gets the chop?

    My hunch is that Lammy will be the fall guy, but I'm not betting on it.

  15. #Mandelson failed vetting to be UK Ambassador, but the #ForeignOffice #FCDO overruled the decision. This was covered up.

    So who lied?

    Foreign Secretary David #Lammy?
    Or PM Keir #Starmer?
    Or both of them?

    There's just no way a civil servant would hsve withheld this from ministers. It's just too big. Far far too big. Some minister knew.

    Which of these large heads gets the chop?

    My hunch is that Lammy will be the fall guy, but I'm not betting on it.

  16. #Mandelson failed vetting to be UK Ambassador, but the #ForeignOffice #FCDO overruled the decision. This was covered up.

    So who lied?

    Foreign Secretary David #Lammy?
    Or PM Keir #Starmer?
    Or both of them?

    There's just no way a civil servant would hsve withheld this from ministers. It's just too big. Far far too big. Some minister knew.

    Which of these large heads gets the chop?

    My hunch is that Lammy will be the fall guy, but I'm not betting on it.

  17. #Mandelson failed vetting to be UK Ambassador, but the #ForeignOffice #FCDO overruled the decision. This was covered up.

    So who lied?

    Foreign Secretary David #Lammy?
    Or PM Keir #Starmer?
    Or both of them?

    There's just no way a civil servant would hsve withheld this from ministers. It's just too big. Far far too big. Some minister knew.

    Which of these large heads gets the chop?

    My hunch is that Lammy will be the fall guy, but I'm not betting on it.

  18. “UK ARMS TRADE: A TRIFECTA OF EVERYTHING THAT’S WRONG”

    by Anna Stavrianakis in Declassified UK

    @Declassified_UK
    @uk_politics
    @[email protected]
    @[email protected]
    @[email protected]
    @iran
    @UKLabour
    @ZackPolanski

    “Declassified’s latest investigation into UK arms exports to Israel left me shaking my head and shouting at the screen. Here’s why”

    declassifieduk.org/uk-arms-tra

    #Press #SocialMedia #UK #MoD #ArmsExports #Israel #SaudiArabia #Waste #Profligacy #ForeignOffice #F35 #Cutout #US #Labour

  19. The UK gave £90,000 to an Israeli report seeking to prove that sexual violence by #Hamas on 7 October was “systematic”, a weakly evidenced claim #Israel made central to justifying its genocide in #Gaza.

    The #ForeignOffice tried to hide how much, so Rivkah Brown spent 7 months getting the data out of them, with the help of the #InformationCommissioner's Office.

    Not a single UK news outlet has picked up the story.
    novaramedia.com/2026/03/02/uk-
    .
    #NovaraMedia #ukpol #FCDO

  20. “CAMERON WAS URGED TO MEET ICC PROSECUTOR DAYS BEFORE ‘THREATENING’ HIM”

    by Dania Akkad in Declassified UK

    @Declassified_UK
    @[email protected]
    @[email protected]
    @[email protected]

    “Exclusive: Foreign Office staff tried to convince David Cameron to support the ICC and meet Karim Khan shortly before heated phone call reported between them”

    declassifieduk.org/cameron-was

    #Press #UK #ICC #Khan #Cameron #Threat #Defund #ForeignOffice

  21. Foreign Office is ‘elitist and rooted in the past’, says new report | Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | The Guardian
    theguardian.com/politics/2024/

    #ForeignOffice
    #Elitism
    #FCDO

  22. Is Scottish national Jagtar Singh Johal expendable in the UK's pursuit of a trade deal with India?

    Given Foreign Office refusal to raise Mr Johal's case with the Indian government in recent discussions, the answer would appear to be yes. There is even an accusation of MI5 and MI6 collusion in Mr Johal's abduction by Punjab police.

    #JagtarSinghJohal #SikhRights #India #UK #Scotland #ForeignOffice #JamesCleverly #DeathPenalty #torture #DavidDavis

    bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-667