Are Mandelson's tentacles still stretching through Whitehall? Duolingo - major client of Mandy's lobby firm - in running to test migrant English skills for Home Office ⊖
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The disgraced peer's now-defunct lobbying company Global Counsel was hired by Duolingo, the online education giant, in 2024.
Support for the PM drains away: First Labour MP calls on Starmer to resign as he is challenged by his own colleagues in Cabinet - and McSweeney is hauled into Commons for a grilling ⊕
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One of Sir Keir's chief allies also refused to back his judgment in making Sir Olly Robbins the fall guy after it emerged he had approved Mandelson's security clearance against advice
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Ministers speak out in cabinet meeting over Keir Starmer’s sacking of Olly Robbins ⊖
Sources say cabinet ministers warned PM against alienating civil service after firing of official over Mandelson scandal
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The civil servant says he was pressured by No 10 to get Mandelson’s vetting done; the PM says he wasn’t informed. Who emerges most damaged?
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Morgan McSweeney, Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff, to be questioned by MPs ⊖
Exclusive: McSweeney summoned by foreign affairs select committee in rare step, as Mandelson vetting row continues
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Starmer to face MPs as loyalist minister declines to say that sacking Olly Robbins was fair – UK politics live ⊕⊕
Pat McFadden repeatedly declined to say that he thought the sacking of Foreign Office’s top official over Mandelson vetting was fair
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PM in name only: Cabinet minister refuses to say Starmer's sacking of mandarin over Mandelson scandal was 'fair'… as MPs say it is 'when not if' he goes ○
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Keir Starmer will brave PMQs amid signs support is ebbing away, with Cabinet dissent surfacing publicly following damning testimony from a Foreign Office mandarin.
Olly Robbins’ account of Mandelson vetting piles pressure on Keir Starmer ⊖
Sacked civil servant tells select committee of ‘pressure’ to give clearance and ‘dismissive’ attitude to vetting
The civil servant sacked by Keir Starmer has given a devastating account of his governm…