Starmer has fiercely denied accusations he deliberately misled lawmakers over his appointment of Peter Mandelson.

As the Prime Minister scrambled to contain the fallout from the row, he said it 'beggars belief' he wasn't told the former ambassador to Washington failed security vetting

All of today's papers respond to Starmer's claims he didn't know of Lord Mandelson's failed vetting for the role of British ambassador to the US.

The statement from the US President comes amid mounting pressure on the UK Prime Minister over his ambassador appointment

Eleven times during his speech on Monday to the House of Commons on the Peter Mandelson scandal, UK prime minister Keir Starmer insisted he “wasn’t told” by officials that his ill-fated pick as Washington ambassador had failed security vetting.

And then, as the whole sorry saga unravelled and revelation after revelation hit the headlines, sanctimonious Starmer – who boasted he would never let staff take the fall for his mistakes – threw advisers after civil servants under the bus rather than apologise and explain his actions.

The prime minister appears to be in the sharpest peril of his 21 months in office, after revelations that Peter Mandelson was appointed despite red flags in the security review.

Starmer-Mandelson latest: PM braces for difficult day as Olly Robbins to hit back over vetting scandal - Sir Olly Robbins, who was sacked as head of the Foreign Office last week, will reportedly ‘not