Articles tagged Peter Mandelson:

Drowned Out By Mandelson's Crisps

  • 6 Apr 2010

I suppose my chief memory of today has to be the moment I was drowned out on national radio ... by a packet of crisps. It wasn't any old packet of crisps. It was a packet being consumed, nay, chomped on by no less a personage than the First Secretary of State himself. Peter Ma...

New Statesman Diary: Mo Mowlam Calls Me a Wanker

  • 1 Jun 2002

A year ago I was co-presenting the Radio 5 Live Sunday Service programme which – completely flummoxed the Sports Minister Richard Caborn. This week, I was at it again with Peter Mandelson, who I was interviewing for my new Planet Politics programme on Oneword Digital Radio. ...

Sunday Mirror: Blaming Peter Mandelson

  • 21 Dec 1998

  Article for Sunday Mirror by Iain Dale   Margaret Thatcher once famously said: “Every Prime Minister Needs  a Willie”, referring to her loyal Deputy Willie Whitelaw.  Peter Mandelson was Tony Blair’s “Willie” and it is his downfall which may well signal the beginnin...