Cat Little Exposes Robbins' Vetting Refusal

0:00On April 23, Cat Little, the top civil servant at the Katman office, just told MPs that Olly Robbins flat out refused to share Peter Mendelssohn's, vetting Summary with her team. That document laid out how Robbins, the former foreign office head who got sacked, cleared Mendelssohn anyway, even though security officials advised, against it. Little got the Summary directly from UK security vetting instead. She testified before the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, shooting down Robbins' claim that her department ever suggested skipping vetting. All together. This mess stems from Mendelssohn's appointment as UK ambassador to the United States. Parliament pushed a humble address motion to force out related documents, and Robbins resisted handing them over, leaving little scrambling to advise. The Prime Minister on full compliance. Emails. Little reviewed show it was actually the foreign office that first raised the no vetting idea, figuring Mendelssohn didn't need it as a house of. Lord's member. Security experts shot that down, saying it was still the foreign office's call, but vetting

1:01was required. Little stressed, she handled it carefully for national security reasons, commissioning legal advice and briefing the Prime Minister on April 14 18 days after her March 25th West, moving as swiftly as protocol allowed in these high stakes cases.