Jon Snow
Mandy's Secret Weapon
At the Mandy book launch last night there were some wonderfully tedious ‘no-shows’ and some equally intriguing ‘shows’, the Prince of Darkness was in ebullient form.
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Jon Snow
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Gary Gibbon
Why Mandelson didn’t answer the phone
Gary Gibbon blogs on the memoirs of Peter Mandelson.
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Gary Gibbon
In Birmingham, with microphones, Mandelson and Mein Kampf
Gordon Brown’s team is saying tonight’s final TV debate is not the last moment to switch voters.
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Gary Gibbon
Mandelson’s weapon of choice – a stick of rock
Gary Gibbon is at the seaside ahead of tonight’s Leaders TV debate in Manchester
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Google not in China for very much longer
Google may have decided that pressure and censorship from the Chinese authorities are just a tool limit their growth, and so it is simply not worth maintaining a future presence in the people’s republic, blogs Lindsey Hilsum.
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Gary Gibbon
Peter and Gordon – what really happened?
The Prime Minister was all smiles with Peter Mandelson at the London launch of the economic growth strategy, this afternoon. But yesterday, after a phone call around 8am, the two didn’t speak again. All day. Wasn’t Peter Mandelson meant to be the key strategist, right-hand man, Deputy Prime Minister in all but name? Yesterday morning’s…
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Gary Gibbon
Looming election brings Labour together
Channel 4 News political correspondent Gary Gibbon reveals how Lord Mandelson is showing unity with his labour colleagues with a general election imminent.
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Gary Gibbon
Decoding Mandelson on Europe
Peter Mandelson’s piece in the Financial Times today is a veiled warning to EU Commission boss Manuel Barroso.
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Gary Gibbon
Brown will speak to a party gasping for inspiration
Peter Mandelson’s speech was all the talk of the fringe last night. l interviewed him at a fringe meeting this morning and he insisted he didn’t do “pantomime”. I resisted the inclination to say “OH YES YOU DO!” One Cabinet minister last night said the speech was a “Gaddafi-like” indulgence. A couple of others I’ve…
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Jon Snow
Mandelson, risen from the dead, is up and dangerous
Few of us thought we’d live to see the day when a Labour party conference would rise as one to their feet in a standing ovation for Peter Mandelson. But today they did. Of course, we have seen it before – when Michael Heseltine did the same for the improbable electoral prospects of John Major.
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Gary Gibbon
Wolf whistles for Mandelson, no ordinary Cabinet minister
The hall is nearly full for Peter Mandelson’s speech.
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Gary Gibbon
Ken Clarke, Peter Mandelson and the C word
Kenneth Clarke talks about cuts, while Peter Mandelson talks about “deficit reduction”, on the Today programme.
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Gary Gibbon
A quiet, but major, shift in the nature of the welfare state
Peter Mandelson’s first speech on the universities since they were swallowed up by his department makes it clear that he expects the tuition fees cap to move up or be dumped altogether. It’s in a sentence about accessibility and making sure universities maintain access for the poorest, but it is there nonetheless. It comes just…
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Faisal Islam
How about a royal commission on spending cuts?
So the cross-party crossfire on spending and deficits continues. It is remarkable that the actual underlying figures in this spat are totally unchanged from the figures we first reported on the day of the Budget itself. But there clearly is a problem to be solved, and the political process seems to be shedding more heat…
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Gary Gibbon
Mandelson, the Lord High Executioner, on Royal Mail
Peter Mandelson’s disclosure that there isn’t going to be a comprehensive spending review this side of a general election is a king-size clanger on the day the Prime Minister wanted to share his policy vision. (What Peter Mandelson actually said on the Today programme was: “The spending period currently operating in government stretches beyond the…