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Sacked civil servant describes pressure to approve Mandelson as UK ambassador to US

Australian Broadcasting Corporation 1 min read 7 hours ago


The former head of the Foreign Office said there was "a very, very strong expectation" that Peter Mandelson "needed to be in post and in America as quickly as possible".
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