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Starmer facing awkward hours ahead as Mandelson questions remain

And yet, in the deluge of documents already published there is an email sent to Lord Mandelson at the beginning of February of last year, when he was beginning in the role, saying, on page 76, that the job “requires DV+STRAP” and so “a new STRAP application form will need to be submitted as STRAP clearance is role specific”.
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