Sir Keir Starmer will address the House of Commons.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer Travels To Washington

Sir Keir Starmer and Lord Mandelson (Image: Getty)

Sir Keir Starmer will deliver a statement to the House of Commons today amid mounting calls for his resignation.

It follows revelations last week that his US Ambassadorial pick, the former Labour peer Lord Mandelson, failed his security vetting. Foreign Office boss Olly Robbins was blamed by No10 and then fired, but questions are being asked as to the Prime Minister's knowledge and involvement in the process.

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in 43 seconds07:16 Aaron Newbury

Starmer was warned of vetting issues

The scandal deepened over the weekend as No10 attempted to play down the allegations they had been warned about Lord Mandelson's vetting before.

Reporting in the Daily Telegraph revealed that Sir Keir Starmer had been warned about issues with the peers vetting.

One source told the paper: "The reality is that Starmer had already been warned about the major risks and he had waved them away."

1 min ago07:14 Aaron Newbury

Starmer to give statement to the House

Sir Keir Starmer will face MPs this afternoon after days of accusations he misled parliament over the vetting scandal.

He faced calls to resign last week after it emerged he may have known that Peter Mandelson, the former US Ambassador, failed his security vetting.

He will need to convince MPs that he did not knowingly mislead the House, after the Prime Minister himself called on previous leaders to resign for the same thing.