The Prime Minister is fighting to save his premiership after bombshell revelations that No10 put the Foreign Office under “constant pressure” to sign off Lord Peter Mandelson as US ambassador and considered giving Sir Keir Starmer’s scandal hit former director of communications an ambassadorship.
Sacked top Foreign Office official Sir Olly Robbins accused Downing Street of a “dismissive approach” to vetting and creating an “atmosphere of pressure” to install Mandelson in Washington as quickly as possible.
