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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nicholas Cecil and Michael Howie

Starmer defies calls to resign as he sacks Foreign Office chief after Mandelson vetting scandal explodes

Sir Keir Starmer rejected calls to resign after he axed the head of the Foreign Office in the Mandelson scandal which was threatening to end his premiership.

Sir Olly Robbins is leaving his post after it emerged the department overruled a security vetting process to clear Lord Peter Mandelson to become UK ambassador to the US despite his links to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

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