Minimum wage rise has made it difficult for employers to hire young people, says Alan Milburn – UK politics live
Government-commissioned report on young people not in employment, education or training to be published by review chair Milburn today
Richard Dearlove, a former head of MI6, has said it would have been “totally impossible” for the Foreign Office to put in place mitigations to manage Peter Mandelson’s associations with senior figures in China, Russia and Israel when he was the UK’s ambassador to the US. He was speaking to the Guardian in response to our revelations yesterday about the reasons by UK Security Vetting argued that Mandelson should be refused security vetting. Paul Lewis, Pippa Crerar and Henry Dyer have the story.
In other Mandelson news, the Telegraph says that the government will publish his communications with ministers and officials while he was ambassador next week. This is the latest batch of information being released under the terms of a Commons humble address and we’ve been told there will be a huge volume of documents released. It will be the biggest government data drop since the multi-volume Chilcot report into the Iraq war.
The Telegraph understands that the disgraced peer often messaged senior Labour politicians and officials with suggestions on how to conduct official business far outside his remit as Britain’s ambassador to the US.
The messages are expected to be published next week alongside thousands of pages of material about his appointment, vetting and communications.
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