Despite his value to Starmer, the New Labour veteran may yet be forced into an extraordinary third resignation
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ord Peter Mandelson once memorably said he was “intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich”. Indeed over three decades at the top of British public life, he has shown a penchant for relaxing intensely in the yachts, homes and holiday pads of the super-wealthy.
When the Labour peer was made ambassador to Donald Trump’s White House, he promised to “stay below the radar” – but the merest glance at his past record showed that to be a highly unlikely prospect.
The original spin doctor, once branded the “Prince of Darkness”, Mandelson was an important figure in the rehabilitation of the Labour party in opposition from the mid-1980s, helping to shape its pitch to the public, alongside the young Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
