{"id":88018,"date":"2026-04-21T08:41:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=88018"},"modified":"2026-04-21T08:41:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:41:01","slug":"sacked-foreign-office-chiefs-explosive-broadside-at-starmer-no10-pressured-him-into-waving-through-mandelson-and-dismissed-security-vetting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/21\/sacked-foreign-office-chiefs-explosive-broadside-at-starmer-no10-pressured-him-into-waving-through-mandelson-and-dismissed-security-vetting\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacked Foreign Office chief&#8217;s explosive broadside at Starmer: No10 &#8216;pressured&#8217; him into waving through Mandelson and &#8216;dismissed&#8217; security 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 loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.com\/1s\/2026\/04\/21\/09\/108039093-15750953-image-a-16_1776759331036.jpg\" alt=\"A letter sent to the committee by Sir Olly lays out his case against Downing Street\" width=\"487\" height=\"452\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-ab080810-3d59-11f1-b042-15b39dbb9bbc\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/keir-starmer\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Keir Starmer<\/a><\/span>&#8216;s hopes of surviving the Mandelson scandal were dealt a hammer blow today as his sacked Foreign Office chief said he was &#8216;pressured&#8217; into waving through the appointment. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/article-15750953\/Ed-Miliband-says-warned-Mandelson-blow-Starmer-braces-sacked-Foreign-Office-chief-tell-story-TODAY.html\">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>Keir Starmer&#8216;s hopes of surviving the Mandelson scandal were dealt a hammer blow today as his sacked Foreign Office chief said he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88018","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\/04\/Sir-Olly-Robbins.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88018","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=88018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88020,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88018\/revisions\/88020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}