More from William Hill: WILLIAM HILL have cut the odds about Peter Mandelson quitting the cabinet before the General Election from 10/1 to 8/1. 'Punters only want to bet that Mandy's cabinet comeback will be short-lived' said Hill's spokesman Graham Sharpe. FOLLOWING his Cabinet re-shuffle, Gordon Brown is now an odds-on chance to lead his Party into the next General Election, ...

Peter Mandelson is about to publish his political memoirs, but they are unlikely to tell the full story of the politician's business dealings. Andrew Gilligan and Adrian Gatton investigate.

Gordon Brown could have just put the final nail in his own coffin by bringing in Peter Mandelson in his latest Cabinet reshuffle. If there was ever a man able to stick the first knife into Brown's back, it's his old enemy Peter. Mandelson was the man who secretly supported Blair, rather than Brown in the Labour party leadership election. Replacing John Hutton as the Business Secretary, M...

It's day two of the general election campaign and the usual suspects are already trying to take voters for fools. Business secretary Peter Mandelson was first on the stump this morning, making a speech to the Foreign Press Association. Mandelson, a powerful yet unelected government minister, seems to enjoy inexplicable credibility from the media - even when talking about trust and honesty in ...

Business Secretary Lord Mandelson today made an important speech at a Progress event at the London School of Economics, this is the full transcript: Before the summer I said that we are now the underdogs in politics. I posed the question whether our response to that fact was to give into defeatism or to fight back. I know what the answer will be from our friends in Progress. It is not a question o...

Why is there a spring in Lord Mandelson's step? He, after all, is the "mastermind" of an election campaign that has seen Labour lurch backwards in the polls.

Peter Mandelson, Labour's Business Secretary, will today say in a speech to Progress and the Foreign Press Association: My argument today is that the challenges we face in 2010 make a far stronger case for the election of a Labour Government than at any time in the past thirty years.

Business Secretary Lord Mandelson today made an important speech at a Progress event at the London School of Economics today, this is the full transcript: Before the summer I said that we are now the underdogs in politics. I posed the question whether our response to that fact was to give into defeatism or to fight back. I know what the answer will be from our friends in Progress. It is not a ques...

Those early election rumours just won't go away.  Here's Peter Oborne writing in the Mail today about the decision to publish this year's Budget on 22 April: "But there is another, more intriguing reason for the delay. Gordon Brown, acting on the advice of Peter Mandelson, wants to keep open the option of a General Election this year. The Prime Minister hopes that U.S. Pre...

Oh dear, the Secretary of State of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, spinmaster extraordinaire, Peter Mandelson, has been caught out spinning and has had to issue a clarification because of it. On the 6th April his department issued a press release titled "Peter Mandelson Leads First Business Delegation to Iraq in Twenty Years" within which stated that Mandy's delegation was the "first B...