The prime minister has been back in the Commons after it emerged the Labour peer failed vetting.

“I should not have appointed Peter Mandelson,” the UK prime minister told the House of Commons. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer will face questions from members of parliament on Monday in the wake of revelations that former US ambassador Peter Mandelson failed the vetting process for his position.…

Keir Starmer, however, admitted that he had been wrong to appoint Peter Mandelson as the UK envoy to Washington.

Keir Starmer faces intense scrutiny from MPs over the Mandelson scandal amid growing calls for his resignation.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he wouldn't have appointed Peter Mandelson as U.K. ambassador to Washington if he had known about failed security checks.

Details emerged last week that Mandelson did not pass the initial vetting process before his appointment as UK ambassador to Washington.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer acknowledged Monday that he made the wrong judgment when he appointed Peter Mandelson as UK ambassador to Washington, but said he would not have done so if he had known Mandelson failed security checks. Starmer is facing calls to resign after the revelation that Mandelson was given the job despite failing security vetting. Mandelson was fired nine months into the job over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.