SIR KEIR STARMER is poised on the edge of the political precipice as he struggled to shelter behind failings by officials in the scandal over Peter Mandelson’s security vetting.Labour MPs sat in sullen silence as the Prime Minister told the Commons that Foreign Office mandarins had kept him in the dark that UK Security Vetting recommended that vetting be denied to the New Labour grandee who he had already named as ambassador to Washington.But left MP Diane Abbott cut to the heart of the matter, asking Sir Keir to loud Commons cheers: “Why didn’t you ask?”

SIR KEIR STARMER is poised on the edge of the political precipice as he struggled to shelter behind failings by officials in the scandal over Peter Mandelson’s security vetting.

Labour MPs sat in sullen silence as the Prime Minister told the Commons that Foreign Office mandarins had kept him in the dark that UK Security Vetting recommended that vetting be denied to the New Labour grandee who he had already named as ambassador to Washington.

But left MP Diane Abbott cut to the heart of the matter, asking Sir Keir to loud Commons cheers: “Why didn’t you ask?”

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