Guy Lachlan

'The rest of the world doesn't owe us a living!' Lord John Fuller says Britain is 'sleepwalking' to insignificance, and blaming Trump isn't the answer.

@BasedMillwaII @Alexarmstrong I doubt that.

@Alexarmstrong Mandelson, the only man to come across Starmers desk ✊🏼💦

LEAK: Messages between Starmer and Mandelson the night before his appointment: 'You'll be brilliant in challenging circumstances… And after many years of our discussions, we get to work together side by side. I really look forward to that” Didn’t Starmer say they hadn’t spoken? Via @spectator

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿HAPPY ST GEORGE'S DAY🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 It's that day when liberals & Lefties delight in telling us how St George was an immigrant; how today's "Far Right" would deport him; how fish & chips isn't even English George Orwell nailed it in his 1941 essay England Your England. Still true today! N.B today's wokerati aren't Orwell's "intellectuals". Rather, they've been taught national self-hatred from the cradle in modern socialist indoctrination camps, aka Universities

A Century ago today, at 2.40am, in a London townhouse on Bruton Street, a baby girl was born. They named her Elizabeth. She would go on to serve as Britain’s monarch for 70 years. 15 Prime Ministers. Head of the Commonwealth. Never a word of complaint. Thank you Your Majesty. RIP

@CamillaTominey Starmer's just waiting for the dust to settle before making Nick Brown an ambassador. He's a 'shoe-in' apparently. Or another similar blunt object.

The Matthew Doyle revelation is incredible. Olly Robbins reveals that No 10 (aka the PM) pushed for not one but two friends of convicted paedophiles to be given ambassador roles - without telling the then Foreign Secretary

@CharlotteCGill Switched off as soon as I saw her.

Miriam Margolyes was tasked with handing out the trophy for the University Challenge final. Naturally she brought up a time she said the f-word (on UC; oh what a hoot she is!) Was no one else available?

@nickareay @SteveBakerFRSA And overrule it without knowing the details behind UKSV's decision?

@SteveBakerFRSA Exactly- what is the point of UKSV if the FCDO can overrule it?

Sir Olly just said with great firmness that in the Foreign Office, UKSV does not grant or deny clearance. It seems to me the PM misled the House on that point.

@toadmeister Not a 'cadet', but an Officer Cadet. Someone on the RAF payroll being trained to lead his people into conflict. These peopme have to be free to ask difficult questions and express views not in line with those of the lanyard class.

The RAF is now so utterly woke that a cadet has been suspended from his officer training course for naming Islam as a security threat to the UK. How did we reach this point, asks Julian Mann. dailysceptic.org/2026/04/20/the…

@julianHjessop Kemi was excellent I thought: composed, articulate and clear. Great job!

#forensic 👍

@BBCPM @DavidPBMaddox Evan, your kid-gloves handling of Starmer's difficulties sounds more like a Labour focus group than a supposedly respected National Broadcaster. It contrasts starkly with your coverage of Partygate. You are anything but impartial.

“The claim that No 10 was completely in the dark about this, until this week, is rubbish.” The Independent’s Political Editor, @DavidPBMaddox tells @BBCPM that he told No 10 last September that Lord Mandelson may have failed security vetting.

🚨 NEW: The "lines to take" script given to Labour MPs for Keir Starmer's statement has been leaked [@breeallegretti]

@zatzi Or is Starmer himself a Russian asset? Would be a coherent reason for the British Secret Service to withhold from him what they knew about Mandelson's similar compromised status.

“The mistake was yours, Prime Minister. You should not have denied something about which you did not know” Whether Starmer knew or did not know, there in lies the rub. A liar or a fool.

@PeterStefanovi2 @DavidPBMaddox I really, really, hope Kemi is spending the whole weekend practicing her attack lines...

The report in the Independent that Mandelson had failed security vetting was actually raised in the Commons by Rachel Gilmour on 16 September 2025 “a source from MI6 has reportedly claimed that they failed to clear Mandelson” @DavidPBMaddox

@alexwickham So are you seriously saying that a Prime Minister could unknowingly appoint a Chinese spy to a diplomatic role, then go on to share top secret information with them, and at no point be told of the security risk? Sorry, not buying it.

BREAKING: Sources say Olly Robbins felt bound by the rules of the security vetting process NOT to tell the PM, No10 or the foreign secretary about the concerns raised about Mandelson That means it appears No10 WERE in fact unaware he had issues with his vetting And sources say in fact Mandelson DID NOT simply fail his vetting. Instead issues were raised and the FCDO security team and ultimately Robbins had to make a decision on whether to grant him DV clearance. It was their decision and there was no “overturning,” sources say As @SamCoatesSky reports via former security official Ciaran Martin, Robbins was prohibited from sharing information about what happened with anyone outside the FCDO security team Sources say the point of the vetting process is that it is extremely invasive and people who go through it must be confident they can tell the whole truth and not have highly embarrassing information about their personal lives leak or be spread around colleagues That means the circle of people allowed to know about what happens in each vetting case is very small and the information is highly privileged The decision on whether to approve Mandelson’s clearance, according to the vetting rules, is taken by a small team of FCDO security officials and ultimately Robbins, sources say Under no circumstance is Robbins or that team able to share the details of the vetting case with No10 or anyone else, sources say. Robbins felt he could not share it with any minister or private office, sources say It appears the PM and No10 were unaware of how these rules were perceived by Robbins and FCDO, and think he should have told them. Allies of Robbins think it is unfair he was sacked But crucially it appears right now that Robbins did not tell No10 and they were actually in the dark about all this until Tuesday. What an unbelievable mess

@LBC @NickFerrariLBC HOW MANY OTHER PEOPLE ARE IN SENSITIVE POSITIONS AFTER FAILING SECURITY VETTING?

‘So you don’t know why he failed the vetting?’ ‘…I haven’t seen the documents.’ @NickFerrariLBC grills Chief Secretary to the PM Darren Jones on the latest Peter Mandelson fiasco.

@EssexPR @RWTaylors I'd forgotten ambassadors are technically the King's appointment. I wonder how he feels being lied to by his Prime Minister...

That’s enough for me… Keir Starmer has to go.

Ah the Sky News / BBC “adults are back in the room” edit we’ve all been waiting for.

@GBNEWS Mandleson failed security vetting due to his links to Communist China. If Robbins really did disregard that unilatererally, and put him in post anyway, he needs to be stripped of his knighthood and put on trial for treason. That might refresh his memory.

🚨BREAKING: Keir Starmer breaks silence on the Peter Mandelson vetting row, saying he is 'absolutely furious' and insisting neither he nor any minister was told Mandelson had failed security vetting, calling it 'unforgivable'. More to follow on GB News...

@julianHjessop There'll be a cushy quango job lined up, don't worry.

Looks like one of Starmer's very few achievements will be making Brexiteers* feel sorry for Olly Robbins... 🤔 (*this one, anyway) #UnderTheBus

@zatzi @TerraOrBust @DavidPBMaddox Its only our most sensitive job with our most important security ally. I mean, why bother the PM with such trivia... 🙄

“Sources have told The Independent that MI6 failed to clear the Labour peer [Mandelson] largely because of concerns over his business links to China.” So, “sources” told @DavidPBMaddox on 12th September 2025 but no one thought to tell Starmer until Tuesday, 14th April 2026. And no one told the Foreign Secretary until yesterday, 16th April. Pull the other one.