Security Vetting Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Security Vetting

Andrew Murrison Excerpts
Monday 20th April 2026

(1 day, 11 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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Keir Starmer Portrait The Prime Minister
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I do agree with my hon. Friend, and I thank her for making sure that the victims are central to this, as they should be.

Andrew Murrison Portrait Dr Andrew Murrison (South West Wiltshire) (Con)
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The Prime Minister has now been on his feet for nearly two hours. May I put it to him that the most charitable explanation that could be put forward to explain this sorry saga, is that it has been a bad, probably terminal case of the three wise monkeys: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil?

Keir Starmer Portrait The Prime Minister
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I have set out the procedure in some detail. Information should have been provided to me. It was not provided to me. If it had been provided, I would not have allowed the appointment of Peter Mandelson to proceed in the way that it did.