Ollie Robbins in Podcasts
personBritish civil servant and the permanent secretary at the Foreign Office, involved in vetting processes.
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But whether it's Mandelson's direct declaration of interest form, which we don't have sight of, or just the things that don't seem to have been written, like any reference to the fact that Ollie Robbins, then the civil servant in charge of Mandelson... Yeah.
Sir Ollie Robbins, who was former Permanent Secretary to the Foreign Office, the FCDO, resigned very late last night over this, effectively taking the hit for the Foreign Office's decision not to disclose this or to withhold this information.
There was, of course, Sir Oliver Robbins speaking to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee on Tuesday, the former Permanent Secretary of the Foreign Office, which we covered on Tuesday's show, but also Cat Little, who was the most senior civil servant in the Cabinet Office, who spoke of the fact that she was not given these key vetting documents related to the appointment of Mandelson in
I think Ollie Robbins made it clear that he felt that he was under political pressure to sort of green light this appointment, despite the reservations, despite the meetings that he'd had and the knowledge he possessed about this vetting.
But this is Ollie Robbins, the former Permanent Secretary to the Foreign Office, who has sort of taken the hit, hasn't he, for the Mandelson fallout.
Yeah, and the civil servant that we're talking about here is a guy named Sir Ollie Robbins.
I have absolutely no idea, and it seems to be a bizarre defense put up by Ollie Robbins, the Mandarin at the center of this, who says that he was prohibited from telling Sir Keir Starmer about the reasons, well, about the mere fact that Mandelson had raised red flags during his vetting procedure and had not been passed.
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