UK prime minister says he should have been told about Mandelson’s security vetting failure [SOUND]

# UK prime minister Keir Starmer says he would not have appointed Peter Mandelson as Britain’s ambassador to the US, had he known he had failed vetting checks. The 72-year-old is alleged to have passed on market-sensitive government information to the late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, while he was the Business Secretary from 2008 to 2010. Starmer told the House of Commons his judgment in deciding to appoint Mandelson was wrong: