He wrote: “I consider that the documentation that has been made public indicates that the relevant process for a political appointee was followed.”<\/p>\n
Conservative shadow chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Alex Burghart had asked Sir Laurie, who is the independent adviser on ministerial standards, to look into a “possible breach of the Ministerial Code” by the prime minister.<\/p>\n
The documents released earlier this week showed Sir Keir had been warned Lord Mandelson’s relationship with the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein posed a “reputational risk” before he was confirmed as US ambassador.<\/p>\n
They also included advice sent to the prime minister which said the pair’s relationship continued after Epstein’s conviction for procuring sex from a minor in 2008.<\/p>\n
Sir Keir has since said he “made a mistake” in giving the role to Lord Mandelson and apologised to Epstein’s victims.<\/p>\n
The Conservatives claimed there was a “cover-up” in the release because two sections reserved for comments from Sir Keir about the appointment were blank, raising suspicions that they had been redacted.<\/p>\n
It is understood no redactions were made to these sections and that they were published in the form they had been returned from the prime minister’s office, after he had reviewed them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He wrote: “I consider that the documentation that has been made public indicates that the relevant process for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-474533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}