Former MI6 boss Sir Richard Dearlove has slammed Starmer’s “appalling judgement” for appointing Mandelson in the first place. He tears apart Number 10’s line that Starmer didn’t know about the ‘new’ material until Wednesday…
Speaking on LBC, he explained that any US ambassador would need the “highest level” of vetting, saying that either Mandelson was “lying” or “there was a massive misjudgement made”. That’s the ‘robust vetting process’ Downing Street has been at pains to mention…
Dearlove said:
“He would have been interviewed or should have been interviewed and one of the questions that would have been put is: ‘Is there anything in your background that we don’t already know about that would bring the office of Ambassador into disrepute? Either he didn’t say that [about his relationship with Epstein], in which case he was lying or he did and there was a massive misjudgment made in appointing him Ambassador. So you couldn’t say that no one had worked it out. So I mean it’s pretty clear cut either way. It was appalling judgement in appointing him.”
Meanwhile, Number 10 is reportedly in a panic that a betrayed Mandelson will try to bring down Starmer with him. This might not be the end of the scandal…
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