Starmer addresses the Mandelson vetting saga

斯塔默谈曼德尔森审查风波

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2026-04-21

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Jonathan Freedland on what Keir Starmer said – and didn’t say – to the House of Commons about the Mandelson vetting failure. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This is The Guardian.

  • Today, Keir Starmer and the never-ending Peter Mandelson saga.

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  • It 's a long-established rule of British government that if a minister says something false or misleading

  • in the debating chamber, they have to return to correct the record.

  • Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

  • On Monday afternoon, it was Keir Starmer's turn.

  • Thank you, Mr Speaker.

  • With permission, I 'd like to provide the House with information that I now have about the appointment of Peter Mandelson

  • as our ambassador to the United States.

  • Standing up before jeering MPs, Stom insisted he had n't lied previously when he 'd said

  • that full due process had been followed.

  • It was the Foreign Office, he said, that had misled him by not telling him that Mandelson had failed vetting procedures.

  • It beggars belief that throughout the whole timeline of events,

  • officials in the Foreign Office saw fit to withhold this information from the most

  • senior ministers in our system in government.