Business Secretary Peter Kyle said there was a two-stage vetting process for Mandelson before he took on the role of ambassador to the US.
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Asked if you could keep things hidden from the process, Lord Kim Darroch told Sky News’ Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips: “I think they certainly don’t just ask you to fill in a form, Trevor, saying, you know, what you want them to know and maybe concealing the things you didn’t want them to know.
“So they do a thorough job… they take weeks and weeks, if not longer, over individuals – the process takes a fair amount of time, so you would expect them to know quite a lot and discover things that maybe weren’t advertised.”
They also interview the person being vetted, he said.
September 14, 2025 9:28 amReport ‘outlined Mandelson-Epstein risks before his appointment’
The prime minister was said to have received the two-page document from the Cabinet Office Propriety and Ethics Team (PET) last December.
The contents would have left Starmer with no doubt about the risks posed by Mandelson’s association with the notorious sex offender, who died by suicide in 2019, Whitehall sources told The Times.
September 14, 2025 9:00 amMandelson’s talents meant he was ‘worth the risk’
He told Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips on Sky News it was not correct that Lord Mandelson was appointed ambassador to the US before security checks were completed.
“The second process was obviously a political process where there are political conversations done in No 10 about all the other aspects of an appointment of this nature.
“Now of course we have seen the emails which were not published at the time, were not public and not even known about, and that has changed the situation.”
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