Sir Keir Starmer will battle for his Downing Street future on Monday as he seeks to explain to MPs how Lord Peter Mandelson became UK ambassador to the US despite failing security vetting.
The prime minister’s statement in the House of Commons will come ahead of testimony on Tuesday by Sir Olly Robbins, who was sacked last week as the head of the Foreign Office over the vetting scandal.
Starmer, who has rejected calls to resign, will insist he did not know about the vetting verdict and blame Robbins for the “unforgivable” act of not disclosing that Mandelson had not passed.
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