{"id":87866,"date":"2026-04-16T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87866"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:38:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:38:00","slug":"starmer-orders-foreign-office-to-explain-after-overruling-mandelson-vetting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/16\/starmer-orders-foreign-office-to-explain-after-overruling-mandelson-vetting\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer orders Foreign Office to explain after overruling Mandelson vetting"},"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\/AA213FO1.img?w=534&amp;h=369&amp;m=6&amp;x=2100&amp;y=383&amp;s=312&amp;d=312\" alt=\"Sir Olly Robbins is the Foreign Office\u2019s top civil servant (Dominic Lipinski\/PA) (PA Archive)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sir\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.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 ordered the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/foreign-office\" 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}\">Foreign Office<\/a>\u00a0to explain how\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/lord\" 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}\">Lord<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.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> was cleared to become UK ambassador to the US after it emerged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/starmer-orders-foreign-office-to-explain-after-overruling-mandelson-vetting\/ar-AA214mYR?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69e0faec269c47c78f291f0f6ad89f24&amp;cvpid=c489a864e26549009e1c84a0f5c2d837&amp;ei=81\">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 ordered the\u00a0Foreign Office\u00a0to explain how\u00a0Lord\u00a0Peter Mandelson was cleared to become UK ambassador to the US after it emerged Read More<\/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-87866","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\/87866","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=87866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87867,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87866\/revisions\/87867"}],"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=87866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}