A former senior foreign ministry official said on Tuesday he had faced “constant pressure” from England Prime Minister Keir Starmerin order to speed up the selection of his nominee to be the ambassador in the country United Statesincreasing the range that threatens the British leader.
A war of words over who should be blamed for appointing a Labor veteran Peter Mandelson to Britain’s highest diplomatic post despite his history and known links to a late American sex offender Jeffrey Epstein It has increased pressure on Starmer, leading critics to call for his resignation.
Starmer has said he was “wrong” to appoint Mandelson to the post and has expressed his regrets, but on Monday he laid heavy blame on Foreign Office officials for failing to tell him that a security review body had advised against his appointment – which, he said, would have prevented him from hiring a new ambassador.
On Tuesday, it was the turn of Olly Robbins, the former senior foreign office official who was sacked on Thursday after Starmer and the Foreign Secretary. Yvette Cooper they said they had lost faith in him, to strengthen his defense.
He was quick to turn his attention to Starmer’s office.
“I went into a situation where there were already very high expectations … that he needed to be in office with America as soon as possible,” Robbins told a congressional committee.
