The Government has reached an out-of-court settlement with the top Whitehall official sacked by Keir Starmer in a row over Peter Mandelson‘s security vetting.
Olly Robbins, who was Britain’s Brexit negotiator when Theresa May was PM, was fired as the most senior civil servant at the Foreign Office by Sir Keir in April this year.
His exit came after it emerged he had overruled a recommendation not to grant Lord Mandelson security clearance ahead of him becoming Britain’s ambassador to the US.
Sir Keir said it was wrong for Sir Olly not to have told him the outcome of the vetting process and insisted
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