The former head of MI6 has slammed Sir Keir Starmer’s “appalling judgement” over appointing Lord Peter Mandelson as US Ambassador despite the peer’s relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Sir Richard Dearlove said senior diplomats must go through the “highest level of vetting” and insisted that Lord Mandelson had either misled officials during his interviews or "there was a massive misjudgement made".
