There was a time when Peter Mandelson would let out a few notes and the media would dance to his tune. But this weekend there’s been a Mandelson interview in The Times, a Mandelson interview in The Sunday Times, a Mandelson appearance on Sky News and an Obama campaign-style memo from Mandelson and none have cut-through. Part of this is because it is Easter weekend and not much is moving poli...

Peter Mandelson has been talking about Gordon Brown at the end of their four-day visit to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Peter Mandelson and Gordon Brown His words are so striking that they bear repeating here. Lord Mandelson said: "We have a British Prime Minister who people see as a first mover.

Peter Mandelson gave a speech in Berlin on Thursday about the EU and the crisis. It was quite a clear statement of his vision for Europe, which differs in some tonal respects from that of Gordon Brown. Peter Mandelson is clearly still more of a Euromantic than the PM, despite the more positive,...

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...

Peter Mandelson has urged the Labour party to "roll its sleeves up" and take the fight to the Conservatives instead of handing them victory "on a plate".

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...

Gordon Brown has said that bonuses for the directors of any of the partly-nationalised banks have been suspended under the strings-attached agreement for taxpayers' bail-out money. Double standards: Why should we pay more for Peter Mandelson? It would be good if the prime minister applied this principle to his own government. Why on earth is Peter Mandelson, imminently to be en...

Martha Kearney has got a nice yarn in her weekly newsletter which I haven't heard before. It's from the time when John Smith was Labour leader and Peter Mandelson was in the doghouse because Smith thought media manipulation was an unnecessary irrelevance. I heard a funny story this week about Peter Mandelson and the late Labour leader John Smith. Mandelson was desperate to win back favou...

Over at Three Line Whip, Jame Kirkup muses whether Peter Mandelson has taken a vow never to give a dull interview. Certainly, from a hack’s point of view, Mandelson makes for great copy. But it is Mandelson who is getting the most out of this relationship at the moment. I suspect that Mandelson realised he was going to be covered in exhaustive detail on his return whether he liked it or not....

Peter Mandelson has been one of the most divisive figures in British politics for more than a decade.