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The Advance UK Merger Collapse: Ego, Entitlement, and the Fight for Britain's Future

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The Guardian Politics19 Apr 2026

Starmer is facing his judgment day over Mandelson missteps

Ahead of a showdown with MPs, prime minister looks like a man who is not really in control Keir Starmer has spent much of the last 24 hours working on a plan for what senior government figures are already describing as his “judgment day”: his showdown with MPs on Monday over the latest Peter Mandelson revelations. That the prime minister was apparently not told of Mandelson’s vetting failure has provoked incredulity across Westminster and accusations he sacked a senior civil servant to save his

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The Guardian Politics19 Apr 2026

Ministers urged to share Mandelson vetting files with intelligence committee

Whitehall officials are weighing up ‘unprecedented’ disclosure of documents in security clearance scandal Starmer did not gamble with national security over Mandelson, says minister Ministers are under growing pressure to share the documents from Peter Mandelson’s vetting process with the parliamentary committee tasked with deciding if they should be made public. In February, MPs passed a binding parliamentary motion, known as a humble address, requiring the government to publish “all papers”

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The Guardian Politics19 Apr 2026

Ella Baron on Keir Starmer and the Peter Mandelson vetting scandal – cartoon

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The Guardian Politics19 Apr 2026

Starmer did not gamble with national security over Mandelson, says minister

Liz Kendall tries to limit fallout from vetting scandal as PM prepares for Commons showdown Keir Starmer did not gamble with national security by appointing Peter Mandelson as the UK’s ambassador to Washington, a cabinet minister has said, as the government tried to limit fallout from the scandal. With the prime minister preparing for a high-stakes Commons showdown on Monday, Liz Kendall said he should not lose his job over last week’s revelations because he had “made the right calls” on the big

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The Guardian Politics19 Apr 2026

Labour’s ‘crab-wise’ approach to closer EU ties must address damage of Brexit | Heather Stewart

The damage to the economy dwarfs the upsides from the various non-EU trade deals the UK has struck since 2016 Rachel Reeves joined EU finance ministers for dinner in Washington last week, on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund spring meetings: the first time a chancellor had done so since Brexit. It was the latest symbolic step in Labour’s marked shift towards prioritising closer EU relations. Continue reading...

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The Guardian Politics19 Apr 2026

How Reform is exposing the reality of Scotland’s views on immigration and identity

Once a progressive outlier, Scotland is facing a political reckoning as Reform benefits from growing social division It’s Monday evening in Aberdeen, and George Preston is wearing his union flag suit to the Reform UK rally. He joined the party in 2024 as it gained ground in the north-east of Scotland with its first councillor defections from the Scottish Conservatives. Now Preston is out leafleting for the party that polls suggest is vying with Scottish Labour to become the official opposition t

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The Guardian Politics19 Apr 2026

Ministers rally around Keir Starmer as leadership questions grow over Mandelson saga – UK politics live

The prime minister’s leadership is still in the spotlight after Mandelson was appointed US ambassador after he failed security vetting Liz Kendall has repeated David Lammy’s claim the prime minister would have stopped Peter Mandelson’s appointment if he had known the peer had failed security vetting. Speaking to Trevor Phillips on Sky News on Sunday, the science and technology said Sir Keir Starmer was a “man of integrity”. Continue reading...

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The Guardian Politics19 Apr 2026

MoD has lost track of veterans on recall list, says defence adviser

Exclusive: George Robertson calls on officials to identify the ‘fit and willing’ in UK’s 95,000-strong strategic reserve The Ministry of Defence has lost track of military veterans they intend to recall at a time of national danger, according to a key government adviser. About 95,000 former soldiers and officers are in the strategic reserve but it is claimed that officials have failed to maintain a full record of their contact details. Continue reading...

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The Guardian Politics18 Apr 2026

Starmer would have blocked Mandelson role over vetting failure, says Lammy

Exclusive: deputy prime minister says it is ‘inexplicable’ top civil servant kept Downing Street in dark Keir Starmer would have blocked Peter Mandelson from serving as the UK’s ambassador to Washington had he known he failed security vetting, David Lammy has said, as he attempted to shore up the prime minister amid damaging fallout from the row. In his first public comments on the vetting affair, Lammy said it was “inexplicable” that Oliver Robbins, the former top civil servant who was forced o

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The Guardian Politics18 Apr 2026

Reeves rightly fears the bond market, but she can afford to ditch one unhelpful rule | Phillip Inman

The chancellor has wisely vowed to drive down the annual deficit, but long-term defence investment must not be delayed There is a good reason Rachel Reeves is wary of the dreaded bond market vigilantes. Anyone who inherits a mountain of debt and then finds out that many of the lenders act like sharks is right to be concerned. Most of the participants in financial markets are not actively predatory. They swim in a sea of money with only one rule, to stick together, hoovering up as much profit as

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The Guardian Politics18 Apr 2026

Mandelson scandal is biggest crisis for diplomatic service in decades, says ex-Foreign Office chief

Sir Simon McDonald says Olly Robbins was ‘thrown under a bus’ by the prime minister and the decision feels ‘wrong’ The Peter Mandelson security vetting scandal is the biggest crisis for the diplomatic service in decades, a former Foreign Office chief has said. Sir Simon McDonald, who was the permanent under-secretary of the government department until 2020, has spoken out in defence of Sir Oliver Robbins, saying the civil servant was “thrown under a bus” by the prime minister, Keir Starmer, when

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The Guardian Politics18 Apr 2026

‘Pure shock’: how ministers reacted to revelation of Mandelson vetting failure

Inquiries into who knew what, and when, will be pored over in coming weeks and could ultimately decide Starmer’s fate When the Guardian revealed that Peter Mandelson had failed his vetting checks before being appointed as British ambassador to Washington, members of Keir Starmer’s cabinet, who were scattered around the world on government business, were caught by the same element of surprise. In Washington for the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund, the chancellor, Rachel Reeves,

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