{"id":403800,"date":"2026-04-17T18:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/403800\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T18:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:11:13","slug":"staggering-i-was-not-told-mandelson-failed-vetting-says-pm-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/403800\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Staggering&#039; I was not told Mandelson failed vetting, says PM &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTFBnSDdhRHR2WWR4VHI0RHlxSFdjeFJoVXNmbXFWTWJYUnIybWNLV3BtbTR0T0JUMVhCdWQxczZsUVgtT2R5Z25CUk02aHItUi1XQmpLRVBFSm4xQQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;Staggering&#8217; I was not told Mandelson failed vetting, says PM<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMivAFBVV95cUxOR0VsaWNrTVNhaU1vVXhjYjlpei1vNHp5MHpST0dtWHd5RDdWMW1YMVExRzhoS0EzVU0ySklDOXR6Zkd5NnV5eDFiX1ZBdE1lVFpVMDdydXZ3T2JOZzlsc05udndvSmFaVUVPaTJFNEdCX0NVN3FRbFFscFVWOEo1TVRINE5la1FFNVVRN0ZjUjZGSUNrcGx0NFJlbU9WeWxrb2dvNkJ1M3YtSXBlbWo0UWJoSmRUOHlrQVZSMw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Revealed: Mandelson failed vetting but Foreign Office overruled decision<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMikwFBVV95cUxQRWRGdS11Sm81TGxGLWt6OHFxZWdsUldMd0RhX3NEdGQwaHh6eEZpWkZqVFh3bHcyUUd0UkN3alJ5ZFJiakctcHlxM0tBWW1YZm1CRFRKLUZRckl3dDdjNXR1VVZoRGpXUHZ5aEF6dVZyT1o3NWNldlVsck9aVFp5MmpYYVlIX3NOUk9BYVJRT3g2MVk?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Commons rule that could sink Starmer<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Telegraph<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMisgFBVV95cUxOU2dielZ1SmRMMzZyZ1FLOERfdjMxS0NuZHpOczhpb1AtRlQxQl9KZWNhcW1SbnJmNTBPVjJ2TFNOb0ZtZFhKbHFvejdDc2FsdEdQcWZ1b2p2VUk0YUdmV015UjZOWlBrUXhZa052a2k0aFdiSm1xWE9GSnZCWFZlcUVJRjJDUjhlMS1LQkZmOFlRWjZRdEw1RF96RnRaNWYtVWNhc05KZXVMRFFBXzlIVDRR?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Starmer \u2018furious\u2019 he was not told told Mandelson failed vetting<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Times<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMipAFBVV95cUxPNXY3R1dIbmJSLV94OUhrdUJKWGdyVGRaNGtfN0lNNGZ5VFdvcnJONGtEZk9CSVhtXzV3dnMzdndraEJaSGtUdGlyTExZT3NxSkhvSmFfOGNlZ1ZmREpBeTNpZV8tVTNLVXpEcWdybVVoY3VFZ0NaS3VENVZ5R1hUWjZFcFVSMW1SaS1FM0xIOExWNExNaGZpY0tYXzFodXpGM2V6Ug?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Starmer Fires Senior U.K. Civil Servant Over Mandelson Revelations<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The New York Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Staggering&#8217; I was not told Mandelson failed vetting, says PM&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCRevealed: Mandelson failed vetting but Foreign Office overruled decision&nbsp;&nbsp;The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-403800","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\/403800","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=403800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}