Top civil servant Olly Robbins has been sacked after his division didn’t inform the prime minister that Lord Mandelson had failed safety vetting for the function of US ambassador.
Opposition events are calling on the prime minister to resign however Sir Keir Starmer is insisting he wasn’t instructed, in an "unforgivable" omission.
He’s because of converse to MPs in parliament on Monday, and deal with the accusations he misled them over the method of Mandelson’s appointment.
But who’s Olly Robbins, the person who has misplaced his job over the most recent Mandelson revelation and is he getting used as a fall man? And how poisonous will the row be for Sir Keir?
Niall talks to hosts of fellow Sky podcast Politics at Sam and Anne’s, Anne McElvoy, government editor at Politico and Sky’s deputy political editor, Sam Coates.
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