Peter Mandelson is to rejoin the Cabinet. This is not meant as a joke, although it is quite funny. Peter Mandelson is to be brought back to the Government It had been clear for weeks that the...

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...

Peter Mandelson is brought back into the cabinet by Gordon Brown as Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.

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.

There aren't many announcements in modern politics that not merely surprise but take the breath away. The return to the Cabinet of Peter Mandelson is an exception. His predilection for spinning and leaking is one reason why so few things are a secret any more. But who would have predicted the resurrection of the Labour politician who had not only resigned twice from the Cabinet but had been i...

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.

A fascinating interview by my colleague Melissa Kite in tomorrow's Sunday Telegraph (read it in full on this site later). In it Peter Hain, the former Cabinet Minister, warns his party it simply cannot go on offering the same tired "New Labour" message if it is to have any hope at the next election. His comments will inevitably - and correctly - be seen as hitting back at Peter Mandelson...

Gordon Brown reshuffled his cabinet on Friday, stunning many analysts by rehabilitating his onetime nemesis, Peter Mandelson, who resigned twice in scandalous circumstances from the previous government of Tony Blair.

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.

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...