Former EU trade commissioner Lord Peter Mandelson reflects on how the right is handling the economic crisis while the centre-left tries to fight back.

Many millions of Indians now stand to be driven towards poverty and hunger, as the sudden removal of import tariffs is likely to have a devastating effect on farmers - suddenly finding their markets swamped by European produce. This is one of those rare times I agree with Peter Mandelson on globalisation.

Perhaps the most inane remark ever uttered by any leading New Labour figure - invidious though it is to select just one, of course – is Peter Mandelson’s vapid contention that ‘we are all Thatcherites now’. Some of us never were, and never will be. Such abject ideological capitulation to the ideas Labour was created to stand against demonstates

Peter Mandelson would have become the acting leader of Britain in the event that Gordon Brown had been killed as Prime Minister, John Prescott has suggested.

Peter Mandelson would have become the acting leader of Britain in the event that Gordon Brown had been killed as Prime Minister, John Prescott has suggested.

'Restlessly energetic' pollster was part of Tony Blair's inner circle of Peter Mandelson and Alastair Campbell

I have never had much time for Saif al-Islam Gaddafi due to the unsavory company he kept in the past, Neo liberal freeloading New Labour types like Tony Blair, Peter Mandelson and Anthony Giddens, plus riff raff like various Russian oligarchs, allegedly George Osborne, and Nat Rothschild, the scion of the banking family and a billionaire hedge fund exploiter in his own right. Nevertheless in recen...

Bob Stewart MP said Liam Fox could follow the example of Peter Mandelson and return to public office after being caught up in a scandal.

Actor Nigel Planer - playing Peter Mandelson in a new Channel 4 Comic Strip show - says he would like to portray the Conservative MP Michael Howard and recreate his "something of the night".

If Peter Mandelson (or Blair, Brown, Darling, Cable, Benn etc) were, when in government such economic and business hot shots that they knew where all of our money should be invested, then why haven’t they all made industrial fortunes as economic and business hotshots in retirement? And it will never dawn on any of these