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  "site": "https://www.the-independent.com",
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  "textContent": "Political editor David Maddox looks back on _The Independent_ ’s exclusive in September last year and how he informed Downing Street of Mandelson’s vetting failure seven months before the prime minister claims he knew",
  "title": "I knew that Mandelson failed security vetting. So why didn’t Keir Starmer?",
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