Peter Mandelson, the Business Secretary, has cemented his position at Gordon Brown's right hand by winning full control of Labour's general election campaign team.

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...

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...

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...

Peter Mandelson, Labour's Business Secretary, speaking at the Institute of Directors' Annual Convention today says: "Can I say how delighted I am to speak to the Institute of Directors. I first did so in 1998 when I was at the Department of Trade and Industry. "I am determined that these occasions which I enjoy so much should not provide the book ends of my ministerial career! "As Miles ...

The business secretary, Peter Mandelson, will set out plans for a new age of "industrial activism" when he gives the annual Hugo Young memorial lecture today, saying the government must do more to support services and manufacturing for after the recession, when the country will be "an even tougher place to do business in". In the Guardian lecture, Mandelson will take a break from his department�...

Business Secretary Peter Mandelson yesterday announced a new £30 million fund to invest in technology companies looking to expand their business.

No, really: The Business Secretary, Peter Mandelson, has told senior colleagues that he backs plans for a state-run investment bank that would use public funds and private capital to back small business and large-scale UK infrastructure projects. Gosh! The new bank would be modelled on the KfW Bank in Germany, which provides funding for banks

At last! It's back to business as usual. The natural order has been restored. The era of political disorientation is at an end. Peter Mandelson is, once again, being condemned by many in his own party. This after many, including even the man himself, had begun to wonder whether the Labour Party would - as Tony Blair once hoped - "learn to love Peter". The reason? His proposal for part-privati...

Peter Mandelson's expected return to government would be his third remarkable political comeback.