{"id":86328,"date":"2026-03-12T14:44:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=86328"},"modified":"2026-03-12T14:44:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:44:28","slug":"starmer-admits-mistake-in-mandelson-appointment-as-no-10-denies-cover-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/12\/starmer-admits-mistake-in-mandelson-appointment-as-no-10-denies-cover-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer admits &#8216;mistake&#8217; in Mandelson appointment as No 10 denies cover up"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1YqMO3.img?w=534&amp;h=764&amp;m=6\" alt=\"A copy of a memo about a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer where he decided to sack Lord Peter Mandelson (Cabinet Office\/PA) (PA Media)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sir\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/keir-starmer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Keir Starmer<\/a>\u00a0has taken responsibility for his \u201cmistake\u201d in sending Lord\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/peter-mandelson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Peter Mandelson<\/a> to Washington, as Downing Street denied there was a \u201ccover up\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/starmer-admits-mistake-in-mandelson-appointment-as-no-10-denies-cover-up\/ar-AA1YtT5n?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69b2cf6b494647d0b0bcfaee348a643f&amp;ei=70\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Sir\u00a0Keir Starmer\u00a0has taken responsibility for his \u201cmistake\u201d in sending Lord\u00a0Peter Mandelson to Washington, as Downing Street denied there was a \u201ccover up\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Mandelson-and-Stammer.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86329,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86328\/revisions\/86329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}