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Anger remains white hot in Whitehall over Olly Robbins sacking
Fury remains high in Whitehall over UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s decision to sack senior Foreign Office civil servant Olly Robbins, who was dismissed for failing to inform Starmer that former US ambassador Peter Mandelson did not pass UK security vetting. Civil servants argue Robbins was acting on No 10’s instructions to fast-track Mandelson’s vetting with mitigations, and the incident has deepened already strained relations between the government and civil service, raising concerns about a chilling effect on civil servants’ willingness to execute ministers’ requests.
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