Peter Mandelson: a timeline of his appointment as UK ambassador to US

Keir Starmer told MPs in Commons statement that if he had known Peter Mandelson had failed vetting exercise he would not have appointed him as UK’s ambassador to the US. Illustration: Guardian Design/Getty

In a pivotal Commons statement to MPs on Monday, Keir Starmer laid out the most detailed timeline of Peter Mandelson’s appointment as the UK ambassador to the US, the vetting process that ended with the Foreign Office overruling the UK Security Vetting (UKSV) and what he said were chances to tell him that civil servants had failed to take.