Prince of Darkness

[SueEllen]

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"

BBC News - Top Foreign Office official to leave post after Mandelson vetting row https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c747r3v90k3o

[hobnob]

I read an interesting blog post related to that, although I can't vouch for its accuracy:
The Vetting Myth - by Arthur Snell - Not all doom

UKSV has very limited access to anything at all, and MI5 and MI6 are genuinely not in the business of investigating individual law-abiding UK citizens. The intelligence agencies don’t have the resources, they don’t see it as their job and they don’t want it to become their job. So this brings us to the most important insight about UK vetting and one which will probably ensure that I never pass vetting again. You can lie to your vetting officer.