Olly Robbins, the former head of the UK Foreign Office who has been fired, says he felt political pressure to approve Peter Mandelson as ambassador to Washington despite security concerns. He insisted the concerns were not connected to Mandelson’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein, but he would not say why the government vetting agency flagged Mandelson as a potential security risk.
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