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MPs to vote on launching inquiry into PM's Mandelson claims
The Conservatives say the PM misled Parliament “multiple times” and that the Privileges Committee should investigate.
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Officials deliberately withheld Mandelson vetting result from me, Starmer says
The PM tells the Commons that if he had known the peer failed security vetting he would not have been appointed.