Foreign Affairs Committee unable to assess whether Mandelson's security mitigations as UK Ambassador to US are sufficient
The UK Ambassador to the US needs "to be party to some of the deepest secrets that the UK government holds,” but mitigating Mandelson's security risks could have been mission impossible
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