Gordon Brown’s cabinet reshuffle is underway today, with the unexpected return of some old faces: The biggest surprise is that Peter Mandelson, EU Trade Commissioner since 2004, returns to the cabinet for a third time, this time as Business Secretary. Margaret Beckett is also back, in the new role of “Cabinet Enforcer.” John Hutton will replace

I think we're pretty much there now... Business Secretary: Peter Mandelson takes over from John Hutton. Defence: Hutton takes over from Des Browne, who leaves the government.

The full post-reshuffle list of cabinet ministers has just been officially released by Number 10. The changes: Business - Peter Mandelson. Defence - John Hutton. Transport - Geoff Hoon. Energy and Climate Change - Ed Miliband. Lords leader - Baroness (Jan) Royall. Scotland - Jim Murphy. Outside the cabinet it gets a little more complicated. The following will attend cabinet meetings but not be pai...

So with the additon of Peter 'nothing wrong with getting stinking rich' Mandelson, the CBI representation on the Labour Cabinet is further consolidated. Peter Mandelson - business Margaret Beckett - housing Geoff Hoon - transport Ed Miliband - climate/energy John Hutton - defence Jim Murphy -...

Mandelson makes a surprise return in Cabinet reshuffle The big story this morning is the unexpected news that Peter Mandelson is set to return from Brussels and commence his third stint in Cabinet, this time as Business Secretary with a seat in the Lords. Elsewhere, John Hutton moves from Business to replace Des Browne at Defence, while

Labour's Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Peter Mandelson's speech to the 2009 Labour Party Annual Conference: Conference, let me say after these years away &# it’s good to be back home. When the Prime Minister asked me to return to the Cabinet last October I felt a lot of things. Shock. I think I was as shocked as most of you were. Surprise. My network of in...

Peter Mandelson has been brought back into the Cabinet by Gordon Brown in a surprise decision described as "perplexing" and "bizarre" by Labour MPs and the Tories.

Peter Mandelson, one of the key architects of New Labour, talks to the New Statesman about the state the party's in, the plotters and his conversations with Gordon Brown Peter Mandelson has broken his silence to warn Labour not to "split the difference between the old left and new Labour" and instead develop a "harder edge" before an election he thinks can still be won In his most wide-rangin...

• Johnson to Home Office in emergency reshuffle • Darling stays as chancellor • Labour hit by heavy losses in local elections Gordon Brown's authority was hanging in the balance today after John Hutton, the defence secretary, became the fourth cabinet minister to tender his resignation. As the prime minister began a make-or-break reshuffle in an attempt to shore up his increasi...

Peter Mandelson is regarded as the ultimate Blairite. And certainly in terms of personal loyalty few match up to him. Despite Blair sacking him twice, Mandelson was still his most articulate defender in the various TV retrospectives on the Blair era. Mandelson even called Blair before accepting Gordon Brown’s offer of a seat in the Lords and a return to the cabinet. But John Rentoul in his I...