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18 hours agoMandelson revelations raise further questions about Starmer's judgement
"I am a fighter not a quitter", Peter Mandelson famously declared when he retained his Hartlepool seat in the 2001 election. Mandelson had his front-rank political career resurrected three times subsequently: as an EU commissioner; as business secretary and de facto deputy prime minister to Gordon Brown in 2009, and as ambassador to Washington in 2025. That third resignation - or, more accurately, sacking - is almost certainly going to be his last.
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