Sacked Foreign Office chief Olly Robbins to face MPs’ questions over Mandelson vetting – UK politics live

Robbins was forced out as Foreign Office permanent secretary over the Mandelson vetting revelations in the Guardian Sarah Champion , the Labour MP who chairs the international development committee, was on the Today programme this morning talking about the mood in the Labour party following the Peter Mandelson crisis. She said that Keir Starmer was unpopular with voters, but not because of this. She said: I’ll be honest with you, people don’t like Keir on the door but it’s not over this Mandelson thing. They don’t like him personally. There’s been a fantastic campaign by opposition parties to undermine him … Continue reading...