DAN HODGES: Peter Mandelson worked on the board of a firm ‘riddled with Putin’s agents’. And Starmer knew it

Today Keir Starmer faces his reckoning. In full view of Parliament and the country, he will finally have to explain how and why he forced through Peter Mandelson’s appointment as Washington Ambassador, even though the security services had specifically warned that he represented a major national security risk.

Starmer’s defence, according to the hapless allies he dispatched on the Sunday media round, will be simple: ‘I didn’t know. No one told me.’

But as we can

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