Ex-Foreign Office head takes legal advice over Mandelson vetting dismissal
Friends say Olly Robbins feels aggrieved about being fired and will give full account when he appears before MPs on Tuesday
Friends say Olly Robbins feels aggrieved about being fired and will give full account when he appears before MPs on Tuesday

Sacked head of Foreign Office says there was ‘dismissive attitude’ to security vetting of former ambassador

Sir Olly Robbins to tell MPs that Downing Street pushed for Labour grandee to take up post as ambassador to the US

Evidence comes after Starmer blamed civil servant for keeping him in the dark over vetting failure

Prime minister’s statement to MPs will come ahead of testimony from sacked Foreign Office head Olly Robbins

Conservatives accuse Sir Keir Starmer of misleading parliament over appointment of former ambassador to the US

Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff gives evidence to Commons foreign affairs committee