Cabinet ministers have expressed concern about Keir’s Starmer’s determination to sack Olly Robbins because the Foreign Office’s high official over the Peter Mandelson vetting scandal as they warned him to not alienate the civil service, sources have informed the Guardian. Several ministers spoke out concerning the determination to sack Robbins throughout a dismal cabinet meeting…
McFadden declines to say he thinks sacking Robbins was fair In an interview with Times Radio, Pat McFadden repeatedly declined to say that he thought the sacking of Olly Robbins was fair. When Kate McCann requested this, McFadden replied: double citation markI do know Olly Robbins. And as I mentioned, I believe very extremely of…
Robbins ‘thrown under the bus’ by Number 10, says former senior civil servant Sir Olly Robbins was “basically thrown under the bus” because of the “biggest diplomatic crisis” in over 40 years, in keeping with Sir Simon McDonald. Appearing on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Saturday, McDonald, an ex-permanent secretary within the Foreign Office,…