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Peter Mandelson: How the Prince of Darkness became his excellency
20 December 2024

Ben Wright
Political correspondent

"I am a fighter.. not a quitter," Peter Mandelson roared at the Hartlepool election count in 2001.

The then Labour MP had just been returned to parliament five months after resigning from Tony Blair's government, accused of helping an Indian billionaire secure a British passport.

An official inquiry later cleared him of involvement but it was the second time he had been forced to quit.

Mandelson had previously resigned as trade secretary after it emerged that he had borrowed a substantial sum from a fellow cabinet minister to buy a house.

Peter Mandelson and headline news have long gone together.

Spool forward 25 years and Lord Mandelson (as he now is) will soon be taking up residence in the opulent and recently refurbished British embassy in Washington DC, where he will be introduced at state occasions as "his excellency", as is the custom.

It's a long way from Hartlepool, in the post-industrial North-East of England, and another political rebound for a Labour politician who always seems to be fighting for the next break.
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In Lord Mandelson, Sir Keir Starmer has picked a political figure over a diplomat or a career civil servant and Donald Trump will find himself dealing with a man at the heart of Labour's governing family.

Lord Mandelson will be a bridge between a president and prime minister who seem temperamentally and politically miles apart.

The outgoing UK ambassador Karen Pierce is known as the "Trump whisperer" within Washington for her close contacts with the incoming president's team.

Having whispered around the corridors of Westminster for decades, Lord Mandelson will soon be deploying his political cunning in the court of Donald Trump. 

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