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Libby Brooks is the Guardian’s Scotland correspondent.
The SNP’s Westminster leader Stephen Flynn has warned Keir Starmer against “a Labour party cover-up” over the hiring of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador, after the prime minister tabled an amendment to a parliamentary motion that would enable him to keep back documents relating to national security.
They’ve put forward an amendment, which suggests they’ll give as much information as they can unless it impacts national security or international relations. Well I hate to break it to the government but being an ambassador is intrinsically linked to international relations, so they should not be allowed to be the arbiters of this.
If they have any concerns regarding national security then there are independent processes through parliament where parliamentarians can still get access to that information. So there should be absolutely nowhere for the UK government to hide in relation to the vetting procedures that led up to Peter Mandelson becoming the UK’s ambassador to the United States of America.
Everyone across these isles right now is dwelling very heavily on the prime minister’s judgment - or lack of ... The prime minister, despite knowing all of this, still decided to appoint this man as our representative in the United States of America and I think that alone is unforgivable.
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