If you believe #KeirStarmer has a habit of throwing people under the bus to hide his own political moves & serve his personal ambitions, you're are right. I didn't need to hear #FCDO chief & #Whitehall stalwart #OllyRobbins give a painfully-measured-yet-damning testimony today to know #Starmer had backstabbed him in the #Mandelson vetting case, then lied to Parliament. This is the Independent article that showed me how much https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/starmer-mandelson-vetting-scandal-downing-street-whatsapp-b2961540.html

I knew that Peter Mandelson failed security vetting. So why didn’t Keir Starmer?
Political editor David Maddox looks back on The Independent’s exclusive in September last year and how he informed Downing Street of Mandelson’s vetting failure seven months before the prime minister claims he knew





