What Starmer said, and didn’t say, in the Commons about the Mandelson saga

Starmer’s statement was framed almost a prosecution opening case against the Foreign Office. Photograph: House of Commons

Keir Starmer has laid out a detailed timeline of events leading up to Peter Mandelson being refused security vetting and how the message was not passed to No 10. Here’s what his statement did tell us – and what it was more vague on.

Starmer’s full chronology