Keir Starmer to face second bruising day over Mandelson scandal

Sir Keir Starmer is to face another bruising day in Parliament over the scandal surrounding Lord Peter Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador.Sir Olly Robbins will have a chance to respond to the Prime Minister, who blamed the sacked senior civil servant for “deliberately” keeping him in the dark over Lord Mandelson’s failure to pass security vetting checks before taking the Washington DC posting.The House of Commons will subject the Prime Minister’s latest efforts to lay out the facts of the scandal to further scrutiny on Tuesday, as MPs hold an emergency debate on Lord Mandelson’s appointment.