Sir Keir Starmer has repeatedly dodged questions on Peter Mandelson as Kemi Badenoch pressed him over the scandal at PMQs.

The prime minister changed topic or refused to answer three times when the Conservative leader asked him if he spoke to Mandelson about vetting documents ahead of his appointment as ambassador to the US.

Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle even had to intervene to remind him: “It’s not opposition questions.”

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