'It's astonishing' Foreign office overruled security vetting

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Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones says it's "astonishing" the Foreign Office ignored advice to security vet Peter Mandelson. Report by Johals. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00The Foreign Office chose to ignore the recommendation from UK security vetting to appoint Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the

00:05United States and the ministers were not notified of the decision to ignore that recommendation. That is quite frankly astonishing.

00:12There's not just an issue in relation to the particular case of Peter Mandelson but the fact that the Foreign

00:16Office and a small number of other organisations have the right to ignore the recommended advice of UK security vetting

00:22is also astonishing and is a practice that I put an end to last night as soon as I was

00:26informed of this information.

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