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Deleted tweet no doubt supposed to be a DM from the government’s newest appointment.

🚨 BREAKING: Olly Robbins says he was asked to find an ambassadorship role for Keir Starmer’s then comms chief Matthew Doyle, who was recently suspended from Labour over links to a paedophile "I felt quite uncomfortable about it. I kept giving advice that this was very hard... for me to defend"

Downing Street says neither the PM or the then foreign secretary David Lammy knew that Peter Mandelson failed security vetting to be US ambassador till a few days ago. Sources say they are incandescent that they were not told. The clear implication is that the permanent under secretary at the foreign office Olly Robbins over-ruled the vetting recommendation and never told ministers. If that is right, and no official is denying that, it is impossible to see how he keeps his job

I spoke to Huffington Post about the Green Party’s anti-semitism problem. We rooted it out of the Labour Party, now Zack Polanski needs to do the same.