Key takeaways from senior official on Mandelson vetting

Cat Little, the top official at the Cabinet Office, tells MPs "due process" was followed in the appointment.

Cabinet Office head says Olly Robbins refused to give her Mandelson vetting documents

Cat Little backs PM’s claim that due process had been followed in appointing Labour grandee as ambassador to US

Cat Little’s evidence to MPs is destined for civil service textbooks | John Crace

The Cabinet Office permanent secretary’s 100 minutes before the foreign affairs committee are required viewing UK politics live – latest updates Here we go again. Some of the public may have had enough of the Peter Mandelson scandal by now. Would rather the focus returned to things like the Iran war and the cost of living crisis. But Westminster has barely started on Mandy. Can’t get enough of him. This one will run and run. You can almost hear the groans from No 10. By now it has finally d...

By John Crace

Officials requested Mandelson’s vetting details days after Independent revealed he failed

Cat Little, the most senior official in the Cabinet Office, said details of the disgraced peer’s vetting were requested by the Foreign Office seven months ago

By Kate Devlin and Millie Cooke