Cabinet Secretary Chris Wormald has defended the conduct of civil servants in the appointment process of Peter Mandelson. Which was a direct ministerial appointment, the minister being one Keir Starmer…
Wormald was asked at the Foreign Affairs Committee to clarify that there is a section in the report presented on a possible appointment, which includes a section on news reporting. Including news reporting into Mandelson’s stay at Epstein’s flat as he was serving 18-month prison sentence…
Asked: “in this case the Prime Minister did receive a report that highlighted that relationship and it was up to him to make a decision based on the information…” Wormald said: “For a direct ministerial appointment that is the process.” Olly Robbins was at pains to stress that the PM wanted Mandelson and Foreign Office officials just went through the motions to action this…
In a classic example of Civil Service HR blockage, Robbins and Wormald justified not telling the PM anything about the Bloomberg story other than that there was a media inquiry about Mandelson which was being “clarified” and issues that “needed to be looked into” before he went into PMQs to provide his full confidence in the ambassador. Farcical…
Olly Robbins also said no one shared the full Bloomberg email contents with No10. He claimed he said it would be best dealt with as a “management issue.” Whose SpAds will have not got over that one…
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