Philip Barton tells foreign affairs committee he was not involved in the decision to appoint Mandelson as US ambassador
Philip Barton tells foreign affairs committee he was not involved in the decision to appoint Mandelson as US ambassador
Q: If you had been consulted, would you have raised concerns about Mandelson?
Barton suggests he would have raised concerns.
At no point did anyone consult me, ask me. I was presented with a decision … and told to get on with it.
He says he had been deputy ambassador to the US, and knew the US well.
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