{"id":403021,"date":"2026-04-17T07:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/403021\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T07:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:21:07","slug":"starmer-wont-resign-over-mandelson-vetting-row-senior-minister-tells-bbc-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/403021\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer won&#8217;t resign over Mandelson vetting row, senior minister tells BBC &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renewed anger at government over Mandelson&#8217;s appointmentpublished at 06:50 BST<\/p>\n<p>06:50 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Olly Robbins walking along a road in front of street lights as it's dusk. He smiles with his mouth closed\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2bd2efed-c174-4cc4-8f7b-be986c665916.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, PA Media<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The top civil servant in the Foreign Office, Olly Robbins, is leaving his role following the revelation that his department didn\u2019t tell the prime minister that Lord Mandelson failed security vetting.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mandelson took up the role of UK ambassador to the US in February 2025, after his appointment was announced in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Seven months later, Mandelson was sacked over ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and the government has been facing scrutiny over the appointment ever since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kei Starmer previously told parliament that \u201cdue process\u201d was followed, and the government says he didn\u2019t know Mandelson had failed his vetting until this week. Despite this, there&#8217;s renewed anger at Starmer and No 10 over the appointment &#8211; including calls for him to resign from the Tories, Lib Dems and Green Party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We\u2019re expecting to hear from multiple MPs over the next few hours, including opposition leader Kemi Badenoch. We&#8217;ll bring you all that, plus political analysis, right here in this page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Renewed anger at government over Mandelson&#8217;s appointmentpublished at 06:50 BST 06:50 BST Image source, PA Media The top&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-403021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}