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Sir Philip Barton, Olly Robbins’s predecessor as top mandarin at the Foreign Office, is giving evidence at 9 a.m. on Tuesday to the foreign affairs select committee, with Morgan McSweeney, Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff, also appearing on the same day.

Barton is bound to be asked about how much pressure he was under to clear........

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