Peter Mandelson did not have national security vetting before Sir Keir Starmer appointed him the UK’s ambassador to Washington, the foreign secretary has admitted.
The shock revelation came as the prime minister was urged to apologise to the victims of the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and to “publish the Mandelson-Epstein files in full” as the government faced emergency questions on the ongoing scandal of Lord Mandelson’s links with the disgraced financier.
