Six-figure payout for senior civil servant sacked over Peter Mandelson vetting

“Six-figure payout for senior civil servant sacked over Peter Mandelson vetting”

Former head of Foreign Office Olly Robbins applied for judicial review after Keir Starmer dismissed him in April Olly Robbins, the former head of the Foreign Office sacked by Keir Starmer over his role in vetting Peter Mandelson, has received a six-figure payout from the government over his dismissal. Robbins had applied to the high court for a judicial review of the prime minister’s decision to remove him as the top civil servant at the Foreign Office after he was dismissed in April. Continue…