No way Lammy wasn’t told Mandelson failed vetting, says former foreign secretary
Exclusive: In an interview with The Independent, former foreign secretary James Cleverly sets out the reasons why ministers must have known Peter Mandelson had failed his security vetting
It is “inconceivable” that Sir Keir Starmer and David Lammy were not told about Peter Mandelson failing the security vetting process for the role of US ambassador, a former foreign secretary has claimed, amid growing accusations that the prime minister scapegoated the head of the Foreign Office in order to save himself.
Describing his own recent experience, Sir James Cleverly, who was foreign secretary from 2022 to 2023, said: “I cannot envisage a universe where someone senior in the Foreign Office wouldn’t have sat down with the foreign secretary and said something to warn about this.”
Queen Anne is dead too apparently.
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But, but, there are probably many legally trained politicians who may carefully interpret the question so that they may proffer a carefully worded answer.
So, as an example, "the case didn't cross my desk" may be perfectly true but the case may well have been extensively debated in a committee room.
Or perhaps "I didn't know until Tuesday" may be perfectly true for a very specific case of "knowing".
Rhetoric again I am sorry to say. Perhaps we need politicians to ask very carefully worded questions that are less open to 'interpretation'?
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