Keir Starmer has sacked the Foreign Office’s top civil servant over the way the vetting process for Peter Mandelson’s appointment as UK Ambassador to the US was handled.

The former top civil servant at the foreign office has levelled accusations at government ministers in an incendiary meeting with MPs in the Commons’ Foreign Affairs Committee.

Keir Starmer, the UK prime minister, stood up in the House of Commons to defend his actions in the appointment of Peter Mandelson as UK Ambassador to the US.

After Keir Starmer and former Foreign Office boss Olly Robbins, the most senior civil servant in the Cabinet Office - Cat Little - has weighed in on the vetting of Peter Mandelson for his job as UK Am...

Sir Keir Starmer will address MPs in the House of Commons on Monday afternoon