Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images In written evidence yesterday evening, the former head of security at the Foreign Office, Ian Collard, concurred with Olly Robbins about pressure from No 10 to approve Mandelson and corroborated the rest of Robbins’s account. Today there are two appearances before the FAC. As I write, Philip Barton, former permanent secretary of the Foreign Office, is before the committee. In the first few minutes of his appearance, he revealed that it was not his decision to leave the department in January 2025 in the middle of the Mandelson vetting, but that David Lammy, then foreign secretary, had wanted someone else in the job, and so he stepped down. He also confirmed Robbins’s claim that the cabinet office did not think any vetting of Mandelson was necessary.…