Has Starmer’s sacking of Olly Robbins backfired? – podcast

After Keir Starmer’s statement to the Commons and gripping evidence from the sacked top civil servant Olly Robbins, Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey talk about how the story of Peter Mandelson’s vetting for his job as UK ambassador to the US, which was first broken by the Guardian last Thursday, has unfolded this week

• Read Paul Lewis’s piece on Olly Robbins here
• Read Pippa, Kiran and Jessica Elgot’s piece on the divides in cabinet here
• Please send your questions and messages for Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey to politicsweeklyuk@theguardian.com

• Keir Starmer
• Politics Weekly UK
• Civil service
• Peter Mandelson
• Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
• Labour