Peter Mandelson

The Godfather of Labour Spin

The Unremorseful Sleazeball

The Northern Ireland Secretary who sided with the terrorists

The Prince of Darkness

The Country's Most Prominent Psychopath

The Europhile Traitor

The man who belongs in Michael Barrymore's pool


History Today: The Last Word on the Millenium Dome Mandelson's period of responsibility for the Dome coincided with all the creative decisions which were so ruinous for the artistic and intellectual integrity of the Dome
Mandelson set for key role - 04/05/97 it is likely that Mr Mandelson will be heavily involved in the presentation of policy... "My appointment will be announced in the normal way by Downing Street later today."
The Mandelson File - 23/12/98
Mandelson to advise Mandela's party 22/01/99 expected to play a role in the forthcoming South African elections
Cronyism claim over TV woman's countryside job - 25/01/99 Ms Goodman is a friend of Peter Mandelson
Connery 'stabbed in the back' - 18/08/99 Mandelson personally asked SNP supporter Sean Connery to rescue the Scottish devolution campaign
Online NewsHour: Peter Mandelson interview - 10/12/99
Victims of RUC slam `snub' by Mandelson - 19/01/00
Mandelson 'should return cash' - 25/07/00
Mandelson leaks 'fuelled the rift between Blair and Brown' - 16/10/00
Mandelson 'lied over home loan' - 16/10/00
Mandelson in fresh loan row - 16/10/00
'Divisive' Mandelson 'misleading' on loan - 16/10/00
Robinson portrays divided government - 16/10/00
Blair drawn into Labour cash storm - 17/10/00
Robinson teaches a lesson in manners - 17/10/00
Labour millionaire who was liberal with his £50 notes - 17/10/00
Mandelson Brought to Book - 17/10/00 Mandelson is the only real "Blairite"
The Labour tale you won't find in these memoirs - 17/10/00 REMIND me again why the electorate got so disgusted with the Conservatives in office. Sleaze and splits in the Cabinet, wasn't it?
Robinson sparks Euro row - 17/10/00
Mandelson claims he is plot victim - 17/10/00
Mandelson disputes his Mirror image - 18/10/00
Who else bankrolled Tony Blair while he was in Opposition? - 18/10/00
Key dates in the years of intrigue - 18/10/00
Mandelson criticised for 'terror' remark - 19/10/00
Mandy is still alive . . . but the Brownies will be back - by Boris Johnson - 19/10/00
Mandelson's dog day afternoon - 07/11/00
'Ill-fated' Dome condemned - 09/11/00
Mandelson did secret deal over flags issue, court told - 10/11/00
Mandelson questions euro strategy - 16/11/00
Mandelson forecasts Nice 'landmark' - 05/12/00
Peter Mandelson defends of the liberal reforms of the 1960s - 05/12/00 saying that Lady Thatcher damaged the ethos of society
Mandelson out in the cold - 11/12/00 Jonathan Powell is now viewed by all key players in the peace process as the main representative of the Prime Minister on Ulster
Mandelson and the Dome bidder's party - 04/01/01
Mandelson's Party - 04/01/01
Peter's friends make a birthday fuss - 05/01/01
Mandelson denies RUC ultimatum - 08/01/01
Mandelson claim angers SDLP - 14/01/01
Hindujas [Mandelson's pal] questioned by detectives - 22/01/01 in connection with the Bofors arms scandal
Pressure rises in passport row - 22/01/01
Mandelson accused over passport - 23/01/01 he has been accused of helping an Asian billionaire who bailed out the Dome to get a British passport
Mandelson phoned minister over passport - 23/01/01
Passport row played down - 23/01/01 Mr Hinduja had previously been denied a UK passport... he later donated £1m towards the Dome... Mandelson discussed the issue with Immigration Minister Mike O'Brien
Passport row: Who said what - 23/01/01 Mandy has been defending himself
Mandelson forced to come clean - 24/01/01 Downing Street dismissed suggestions that Mr Mandelson should resign
Mandelson memory is jogged again - 24/01/01
Commons reply lit fuse to Hinduja passport controversy - 24/01/01
Empire that grew and grew - 24/01/01
More of Peter's friends - 24/01/01 No doubt Mr Mandelson can explain everything
Mr Hinduja got his passport. The Dome got £1m - 24/01/01
The secret deals and sniping that turned Spirit Zone into a war zone - 24/01/01
That's another fine mess he's made for himself - 24/01/01
Mandelson summoned to Downing Street for urgent meeting with PM Blair - 24/01/01
Mandelson admits personal role in Dome sponsor's bid for British passport - 24/01/01
Blair's statement in the Commons - 24/01/01 "I had a meeting this morning with Mr Mandelson, who has since announced his decision to resign"
Blair summons Mandelson - 24/01/01
Mandelson resigns - 24/01/01 BBC
Mandelson resigns - 24/01/01 Telegraph
Mandelson's resignation statement - 24/01/01 "I want to lead a more normal life"
The Mandelson statement in full - 24/01/01
Party leaders trade blows in the Commons - 24/01/01 Blair: "I believe he is a bigger man than many of his critics"
Mandelson: The reaction - 24/01/01
Mixed NI views on Mandelson resignation - 24/01/01
What next for Mandelson? - 24/01/01
No way back for Mandelson - 25/01/01
No time for tears or coffee at the final execution - 25/01/01
'King of spin' who ran out of excuses - 25/01/01
Hollywood's glitz may be too hard for him to ignore - 25/01/01 This is a man who wears matching cowboy boots and cycling shorts with his boyfriend, Reinaldo da Silva, while shopping in Notting Hill
I'm sad that I had to report the phone call, says O'Brien - 25/01/01
How faith, Dome and charity led to downfall - 25/01/01
Questions and answers that led to resignation - 25/01/01
Will he give back the cash? - 25/01/01 Mandelson is entitled to £12,129 tax-free severance pay... last time he resigned he received £11,000 which he kept despite returning to the Cabinet within 10 months
Commentary: Love-hate affair with journalists - 25/01/01
Today team missed the political signals - 25/01/01 Andrew Marr, the BBC's political editor, whose support for Labour provoked controversy over his appointment to the BBC's top political post
What he said yesterday - 25/01/01 and What he said last time on 23/12/98
Yesterday in Parliament - 25/01/01
Mandelson is gone for good - they'll miss him at the election - 25/01/01
Boris Johnson: A refusal to mourn the death of Peter Mandelson - 25/01/01 Of course Blair knew Mandy was a colossal fibber
Why did he resign? - 25/01/01 voters no longer believe so readily that Mr Blair is "a pretty straight kind of guy"
What Mandelson did in Ulster - 25/01/01
So why did the 'Dome Secretary' risk everythingfor Mr Hinduja? - 25/01/01
Hague attacks Blair's 'error of judgement' - 25/01/01
He misled Alastair Campbell. And that was a very, very serious mistake indeed - 25/01/01
A terrible time for Blair to lose his master of spin - 25/01/01 The effect on Labour
The iron law of politics dictated that he had to go - 25/01/01
Long feud with Brown sapped his will to fight - 25/01/01 The final moments
Passport to oblivion - 25/01/01
Only Churchill came back twice - 25/01/01
Mandelson's downfall - 25/01/01
Mandelson vows to fight seat again - 25/01/01
Blair orders Hinduja passport inquiry - 25/01/01
Mandelson fall-out spreads - 25/01/01 Europe Minister Keith Vaz wrote to both Tony Blair and Mr Mandelson on behalf of the Hindujas in 1997
Hague says Mandelson affair is not over - 25/01/01
Mandelson vows to fight seat again - 25/01/01
Goodbye Mandy - 25/01/01 The New Labour project should now come to an end
'I'll fight at next election for my Hartlepool seat' - 26/01/01
It's 'business as usual' for Blair on campaign trail - 26/01/01
The unanswered questions - 26/01/01
Straw was first inquiry witness - 26/01/01
Timeline: Passport row - 26/01/01
Hartlepool backs Mandelson - 27/01/01
Mandelson and Blair go to war over resignation - 28/01/01
Mandelson 'rushed' into resigning - 28/01/01 He says he quit in a moment of personal weakness
Mandelson puts his side of the story - 28/01/01
Mandelson: I was rushed into quitting - 28/01/01 Blair's official spokesman, Alastair Campbell, has described the disgraced minister as being "slightly detached"
Mandelson defends passport role - 28/01/01
Mandelson: I was forced out and now I am fighting back - 28/01/01
He won't go quietly - 28/01/01
I never lied - Downing Street sentenced me - 28/01/01 Times article by Peter Mandelson
Vaz 'linked to Hinduja bank bid' - 28/01/01
It's not over yet - 28/01/01
Mandelson and No10 in savage war of words - 28/01/01
The phone call, the fatal lie and the wealth that Labour cannot resist - 28/01/01
'I did not lie and was forced to quit' - 28/01/01
Mandleson's chances slim up North - 28/01/01
Sundays debate Mandelson fallout - 28/01/01
Mandelson aims to clear his name - 28/01/01
Feuding erupts in Mandelson affair - 28/01/01 Clare Short said Mr Mandelson had problems with the truth... "The Blair government, built as it is on spin, lies and deception, is unravelling."
Mandelson: now the knives go in - 29/01/01 JACK STRAW, the Home Secretary, led a concerted Labour onslaught on Peter Mandelson last night after it was disclosed that he was directly responsible for informing Tony Blair that the Northern Ireland Secretary had been "untruthful"
Master of spin trapped in his own web - 29/01/01
For the first time, the fight went out of me - 29/01/01 edited extract from Peter Mandelson's article in The Sunday Times on 28/01/01
How words of support vanished - 29/01/01
Exit Labour's magician, enter Blair's nemesis - 29/01/01 if Blair gives up Mr Mandelson he will go down
He's gone for good - now for the comeback - 29/01/01
An issue of lies - 29/01/01 the absence of a great issue of state only serves to highlight the poisonous personal relations at the court of Tony Blair. This is a drama of betrayal and retribution
Crisis for Blair as Mandelson war of words engulfs Cabinet - 29/01/01 with one of them claiming he "had a problem with the truth"
Inquiry into passport row 'to be concluded within weeks' - 29/01/01
Campbell denies putting the knife into Mandelson - 29/01/01
Was he 'detached'? Yes, and off-guard - and obviously heading for a fall - 29/01/01
Pushed out by panic - and a collision of spin - 29/01/01
Hinduja admits he asked ministers about passport - 29/01/01
The Independent's own Mandy page
Tories: "This problem is about spin, distortion, arrogance, bending the rules - this has always been the hallmark of this government and the public needs to know the truth" Q and A: The Mandelson affair - 29/01/01
Mandelson inquiry 'over in weeks' - 29/01/01
Vital call failed to get through, say friends - 30/01/01
Calling Peter a liar was like saying 'you will sleep with the fishes tonight' - 30/01/01
Meet Peter Mandelson, the (lapsed) memory man - 30/01/01
Notebook by Andrew Marr - 30/01/01 I was taken to task by this paper [The Telegraph] for failing to predict Peter Mandelson's resignation on the day it happened
A task for Redwood - 30/01/01 The more we learn of this case, the more William Hague's performance at Prime Minister's Questions last week is vindicated
Tories seek MI6 answers on Hindujas - 30/01/01
QC tells ministers to stay silent over Mandelson affair - 02/02/01
Mandelson's case - 03/02/01 Whether Peter Mandelson was guilty or innocent of conduct deserving the sack, it is clear that he has been very shabbily treated by Tony Blair
Mandelson to face Scargill at election - 03/02/01
Memo backs me, says Mandelson - 04/02/01
Inquiry 'biased against Mandelson' - 04/02/01 "You have to question Straw's judgment"
Interview with S. P. Hinduja - 04/02/01
Now Peter has a project all of his own - 04/02/01 The Prime Minister is said to have remarked once that "if World War Three was to break out, the first person I'd call is Peter"
How Mandelson will be the new Heath - 04/02/01
Mandelson 'not seeking revenge' - 04/02/01
Mandelson flies back, vowing to clear his name - 05/02/01
Mr Blair should say if he thinks his friend is a liar - 05/02/01 Stop digging, Mr Mandelson. Politically, you are already 6 feet under
Mandelson returns for fightback - 05/02/01
Mandelson in 'pushing' incident - 08/02/01
Ex-minister wants Euro job from Blair - 09/02/01
He pushed me, claims BBC cameraman - 09/02/01
Yesterday in Parliament: Campbell's role in airbrushing Mandelson out of British politics - 09/02/01
Mandelson to fight seat at election - 09/02/01
Mandelson denies EC post reports - 09/02/01
Mandy: a sad spectacle - 09/02/01
Mandelson: A question of honesty - 09/02/01 Mandelson today faced new questions over his honesty after he placed reports in two newspapers that he might become a Euro Commissioner - and then denounced the media for "baseless" speculation
Mandelson told to keep quiet - 10/02/01
Mandelson fights back on home ground - 10/02/01
Mandelson is suicide risk, says psychologist who analysed him - 11/02/01
Has Mandelson gone mad? - 11/02/01
It was never the euro that Brown hated - 11/02/01
A question of smoke and mirrors - 11/02/01 Frederick Forsyth detects a Home Office plot
Blair aide's gay jibe at Mandelson - 11/02/01 Backlash against former minister intensifies as PM adviser urges him "to go off and have a lovely life with Reinaldo"
Mandelson and Blair call truce - 11/02/01
Officials fail to find record of crucial Mandelson phone call - 14/02/01
Mandelson may get swift recall - 18/02/01
Mandy seeks a quick recall - and Derry [Irvine] had better watch out - 18/02/01 Mandelson has been sounding off to anyone who'll listen about his glowing future
The definitive story of Peter Mandelson's fall from grace - 02/03/01
Hammond pinpoints Mandelson 'muddle' - 04/03/01 Mandelson's friends doubt that the report will fully exonerate Mr Mandelson of misleading Downing Street
Hinduja passport inquiry likely to clear Mandelson - 05/03/01
North-south split persists: Mandelson - 30/03/01
Brown faces revolt over fund formula - 25/04/01 including his old rivals John Prescott and Peter Mandelson
Mandelson 'sorry' for row with neighbours - 01/05/01 Mrs Leslie, 43, a teacher, said Mr Mandelson had been "ranting": "One of the penalties of serving in Northern Ireland is that you become vulnerable to terrorism"
Old enemy will fight Mandelson for seat - 06/05/01
Blair counters 'spin' claims - 15/05/01 Peter Mandelson makes a veiled criticism today of Labour's campaign
Mandelson in the wilderness he calls home - 15/05/01
David Hare's election - 25/05/01 "Mandelson's reality is better than the illusion of exile"
Labour rift on NHS tax widens - 30/11/01 Mr Mandelson's remarks reflect growing tension between 10 Downing Street and Numder 11 over the future funding of the health service
Mandelson: Britain 'has no stomach for IRA fight' - 05/12/01 'and Gerry Adams will probably live to see a united Ireland'
Mandelson attacks Omagh report - 15/12/01
IRA 'freedom fighters' says Mandelson - 29/12/01
Blair gives way to Mandelson on new inquiry - 04/02/02
Mandelson comeback dashed - 17/02/02
Mandelson welcomes Hammond report - 01/03/02
Mandelson challenged over living 'rent-free' - 06/03/02
Mowlam blames Brown and Mandelson for Cabinet downfall - 07/03/02 Channel 4 two-part documentary Inside New Labour With Mo Mowlam
We only tinkered, admits Mandelson - 17/05/02 Labour has made little difference to the lives of the poor
Ombudsman says Cabinet Office 'tried to block investigation' into Mandelson's "cash for passports" affair - 23/05/02
Mandelson on Blair's list to be Washington envoy - 14/07/02
Stay firm over unions, ministers urged by Peter Mandelson - 09/08/02
US adding to Iraq confusion - Mandelson - 12/08/02
Mandelson backs US-led Palestinian protectorate - 22/08/02
Mandelson: I made too many enemies - 27/09/02
Mandelson denies campaign against editor - 04/03/03
Euro referendum this year, says Mandelson - 14/04/03
Mandelson reveals Blair's pain - 30/04/03 he has told the BBC about the moment when Tony Blair demanded his resignation over the Hinduja passport affair
Mandelson warns Blair over euro - 20/05/03
Labour's 'top to bottom euro split' - 21/05/03 Peter Mandelson says Blair has been "outmanoeuvered" by Gordon Brown over the Euro
Analysis: With friends like Mandelson... - 21/05/03
Prime Minister's Questions - 21/05/03 Iain Duncan Smith asked about Peter Mandelson's suggestion that Tony Blair has been "outmanoeuvred" on the euro... He has done more U-turns than a dodgy plumber
PM to issue election warning - 11/07/03 as world leaders arrive at Mandy's sinister think-tank session
Mandelson 'prepared Campbell's departure' - 01/09/03
Mandelson denies Euro job offer - 08/11/03
Mandelson gives backing to Brown - 04/07/04
Commons Confidential - 12/07/04
Mandelson 'to be EU commissioner' - 22/07/04
Blair gives Brussels post to Mandelson - 23/07/04
Forced out of Cabinet twice, yet Mandelson bounces back - 23/07/04
Mandelson offered top Europe post - 23/07/04 so it wasn't a joke after all
Will Mandelson put Europe in a spin? - 23/07/04
Why Blair brought Mandelson back - 23/07/04
Uproar in Labour ranks over Mandelson comeback - 24/07/04
Ups and downs of Bobby, the political survivor - 24/07/04
Generous perks will ease 'pain' of leaving Commons - 24/07/04 what will Mandy find when he pokes his snout into the Euro-trough?
Mandelson is excellent news for Euro-sceptics - 24/07/04
Mandelson 'wanted Cabinet seat' - 24/07/04
Mandelson defends EU appointment - 24/07/04 but see story on 9th Feb 2001!!!
Mandelson's ex-adviser quits race - 03/08/04
Mandelson EU trade commissioner - 12/08/04
Mandelson lands Brussels trade job - 13/08/04
Mandelson meets Brussels top team - 19/08/04
Mandelson: I will be team player - 04/10/04
Q&A: Mandelson's new job - 04/10/04
Mandelson says gay remark unwise - 14/10/04
Euro row is 'hiccup' - Mandelson - 27/10/04
'End Brown rift' Mandelson urges - 21/11/04
Can Peter and Gordon ever make up? - 25/11/04
Brown directs swipe at Mandelson - 02/12/04
Mandelson to be quizzed on links with coup plotters - 05/12/04
Mandelson in election role denial - 27/12/04
Mandelson warns BBC on Campbell - 07/02/05
Mandelson fires warning at BBC over 'dirty tricks' - 09/02/05
Mandelson 'is like an illegal street hawker' - 03/04/05
Mandelson caught in privacy row over holiday before EC trip - 19/04/05
Mandelson rejects `EU tittle-tattle' - 20/04/05 Asked if there was a conflict of interest between being a commissioner and accepting free hospitality, Mr Mandelson, who resigned from the Cabinet twice over allegations of sleaze, replied: "I don't think you even have to ask that question."
Mandelson's holiday secrets revealed - 21/04/05
Airbus v Boeing: The next battle - 26/04/05 up pops Mandy to start a trade war with the US
EU 'won't revive Chinese quotas' - 26/05/05 Mandy gets protectionist while pretending not to
Blair faces clash over move to kill EU treaty - 31/05/05 Mandelson says France may have to keep repeating the referendum until they produce the result he wants
Flare-up in EU-US air trade row - 31/05/05
UK must end 'Thatcher tone on EU' - 13/06/05 patriotism bad, treason good
Has Mandelson gone native? - 14/06/05
Mandelson enters farm subsidy row - 24/06/05 He is also urging Europe to change its social policies to make economic reforms "bearable"
Mandelson urges economic reform - 21/07/05
Ex-Mandelson aide in No 10 post - 28/07/05
Peter Mandelson named "protectionist of the month" - 26/08/05
Aid charity criticises Mandelson - 01/09/05 for threatening the jobs of people in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific
EU backs Mandelson on trade talks - 18/10/05 after criticism that he is making too many concessions on farm aid in trade talks
Mandelson raises pressure on UK - 22/11/05
EU 'has room to move on tariffs' - 23/11/05
Mandelson warning on trade deal - 12/12/05
Mandelson: Labour needs 'unity' - 21/12/05 but does it need Mandy?
Mandelson's EU constitution call - 06/04/06
Private Eye article on Mandy - May 2006
EU warns China on piracy problem - 08/06/06
Europe blames US for WTO failure - 24/07/06 well actually it's just Mandy, not Europe
U.S. slams EU 'blamesmanship' in trade impasse - 25/07/06
Mandelson warns over union power - 24/09/06
Mandelson admits Labour 'fissure' - 26/09/06
Early-riser Mandelson sticks breakfast knife into Brown - 27/09/06 "possibly the most duplicitous politician" of recent times, according to Charlie Whelan
How EU commissioners afford houses - 24/11/06 Where did Peter Mandelson find the money to buy a £2.4m house?
Mandelson hails Blair on Europe - 18/01/07
Brown can't sack me - Mandelson - 22/03/07
Brown needs a contest - Mandelson - 23/03/07
Mandelson warning on EU vote call - 07/09/07

Mandelson in EU debate warning - 12/10/07

Peter Mandelson laments PM's 'EU dithering' - 15/12/07


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