Posts Tagged ‘Lord Mandelson’
Mandelson's defence of Brown? The PM was just lying
Stop digging Mandy, immediately. Labour’s campaign mastermind Lord Mandelson has been busy firefighting the Brown/open mic debacle – and what brilliant defensive strategy has this latter-day M... Read More
Portraying Clegg as Mandelson won't work: it's the Lib Dems' weird policies that will turn voters off
Who is Nick Clegg? One thing is for sure: he’s no Peter Mandelson. Painting him as such, which is what some of the hostile media have been doing, won’t work. There are plenty of reasons ... Read More
A rattled Lord Mandelson is losing his touch
The BBC’s Nick Robinson has delivered a sharp kick on the shins to Lord Mandelson over his claim that the Tories were behind this morning’s clutch of stories about Nick Clegg. He points ou... Read More
Labour talks to voters as if they were children
Labour is using very telling language in its attempts to inspire terror over the prospect of a Conservative government. Lord Mandelson has warned voters that the Tories are planning to “aband... Read More
General Election 2010: Peter Mandelson is the Eric Idle of this campaign
There was a Monty Pyton sketch in which Eric Idle played an oleaginous nightclub MC whose spiel was spectacularly obsequious – ” a showbiz legend, a man whose boots I’m not fit to li... Read More
General Election 2010: How long before Peter Mandelson and Ed Balls are at each other's throats?
Not for the first time, Rachel Sylvester has unearthed an intriguing nugget in her column this morning. She reveals that in the run-up to last year’s pre-Budget report, Alistair Darling and Lord Man... Read More
Lord Mandelson goes to war with Lord Ashcroft – it could be messy
Well, you win some, you lose some. Lord Mandelson, no stranger himself to the odd inquiry into his personal finances, has been trying to flog some life into the Lord Ashcroft non-dom story. He took it... Read More
Gordon Brown: The Downing Street Bully
The revelation that several Downing Street staff felt compelled to contact an anti-bullying hotline after suffering abusive treatment at the hands of the Prime Minister himself, raises further major q... Read More
Lord Mandelson and his puppet Prime Minister
What a belter of a quote from Rachel Sylvester in The Times this morning. Musing on Lord Mandelson’s current state of mind, she drops this little bombshell: ‘At breakfast in a stately home... Read More
Mandelson takes on the Brown/Balls axis
Remember John Prescott’s tectonic plates (or were they dinner plates?). When he said they were moving in 2004, he was commenting on the latest Brown/Blair nonsense but his intervention, in retro... Read More