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

Keir Starmer would have withdrawn Peter Mandelson’s appointment as ambassador to the US if he had known he had not passed security vetting, Liz Kendall said, even if it was close to Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Kendall told Laura Kuenssberg on BBC One that Starmer would have rescinded the job offer if he had been told – regardless of the timing ahead of Trump taking up the Presidency.