Officials deliberately withheld Mandelson vetting result from me, Starmer says
The PM tells the Commons that if he had known the peer failed security vetting he would not have been appointed.
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- The PM tells the Commons that if he had known the peer failed security vetting he would not have been appointed.
- Reported by BBC Politics.
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The PM tells the Commons that if he had known the peer failed security vetting he would not have been appointed.
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