{"id":4503,"date":"2026-04-21T05:19:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/?p=4503"},"modified":"2026-04-21T16:02:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:02:06","slug":"i-knew-that-mandelson-failed-security-vetting-so-why-didnt-keir-starmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/i-knew-that-mandelson-failed-security-vetting-so-why-didnt-keir-starmer\/","title":{"rendered":"I knew that Mandelson failed security vetting. So why didn\u2019t Keir Starmer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Political editor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/author\/david-maddox\">David Maddox<\/a> looks back on<em> The Independent<\/em>\u2019s exclusive in September last year and how he informed Downing Street of Mandelson\u2019s vetting failure seven months before the prime minister claims he knew<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political editor David Maddox looks back on The Independent\u2019s exclusive in September last year and how he informed Downing Street of Mandelson\u2019s vetting failure seven months before the prime minister claims he knew<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4504,"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503\/revisions\/4504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aibih.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}