Accountability demanded over Mandelson appointment

Taunton and Wellington’s Liberal Democrat MP, Gideon Amos, has said it is “outrageous” that Lord Mandelson was appointed as Britain’s Ambassador to the US after failing security vetting.

There are mounting calls for the Prime Minister to resign amid claims he misled MPs when he told them that "full due process" had been followed over the appointment.

Gideon said: “This is absolutely outrageous and the government has extremely serious questions to answer.

“We need a clean-up in our politics and a clean-up of appointments like that of our Ambassador.”

Lib Dem Leader, Sir Ed Davey said: “Keir Starmer had already made a catastrophic error of judgement.

Now it looks as though he has also misled Parliament and lied to the British public. If that is the case, he must go.

“Labour came into Government on a promise to clean up politics. Instead, we’re seeing the same old sleaze, scandal and cover-ups as we did under the Conservatives.”