Sir Olly Robbins was “thrown under the bus” when he was sacked from his job as the most senior civil servant in the Foreign Office, a former Whitehall mandarin has said.
Lord Simon McDonald, ex-permanent secretary in the Foreign Office, said Sir Olly was a “scalp” for Number 10 after it emerged this week the department overruled concerns raised during the vetting process to appoint Lord Peter Mandelson as British ambassador to Washington.
