The Real Peter Mandelson
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- Donald Macintyre's documentary was broadcast on 25 April 1999 as part of a series marking the second anniversary of the Labour government, but may have been greenlit before Mandelson's sudden resignation in December.
Interviews: Miles Mandelson (brother), Steve Howell (school friend), Graham Good (from the Winchester Youth Club), Trevor Phillips (former President, National Union of Students), David Aaronovitch (journalist), David Cox (Editor, Weekend World), Neil Kinnock (Leader of the Labour Party), Colin Byrne (Labour Party Chief Press Officer), Joy Johnson (ITN Producer), Andy McSmith (Labour Party Press Officer), Tom Sawyer (Labour Party General Secretary), David Hill (Labour Party Head of Press), John Burton (Agent to Tony Blair), Robert Harris (author and journalist), Derek Draper (Assistant to Peter Mandelson), Benjamin Wegg-Prosser (Adviser to Peter Mandelson), Anne McElvoy (journalist), Sarah Hunter (assistant to Peter Mandelson), Robin Butler (Head of the UK Civil Service), Jack Straw (Home Secretary).
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In his first incarnation, as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, he lasted less than five months in 1998.
He was undone on that occasion by the revelation that he had bought a fashionable home in Notting Hill, with the help of an interest-free £373,000 loan from his millionaire ministerial colleague Geoffrey Robinson.
When Mr Mandelson filled in a Britannia Building Society mortgage form to buy the house in 1996 he had failed to mention the loan. Nor did it appear on his entry in the Commons Register of Interests.
After joining the Cabinet he also did not bring the loan to the attention of his Permanent Secretary, even though Mr Robinson's business links were at that time under investigation by Mr Mandelson's own department.
Tony Blair had vowed that his Government, in contrast to the Conservatives, would be "whiter than white" and Mr Mandelson had to go.
He admitted being "technically" wrong in not telling his building society about the loan but, even though he resigned, insisted he had done nothing improper.
That left his path open, once the furore had died down, for a return to the Cabinet only 10 months later in the crucial post of Northern Ireland Secretary.
He lasted more than a year this time before another scandal erupted.
It related to a previous ministerial role, when he had responsibility for the Millennium Dome, and centred on newspaper accusations that he helped the Indian billionaire Srichand Hinduja to secure a British passport in return for a £1 million donation to help fund the Dome's Faith Zone.
When the story broke Mr Mandelson said an inquiry about Mr Hinduja's passport application had been dealt with by his Private Secretary, not him personally.
That led to the Prime Minister's spokesman Alastair Campbell inadvertently misleading the media and Chris Smith, the then Culture Secretary, doing the same with MPs in the Commons.
It soon became apparent from Home Office records that Mr Mandelson had personally telephoned Home Office Minister Mike O'Brien.
Their conversation related to whether a passport application from Mr Hinduja would be reconsidered following a change in government policy.
After being contacted by Downing Street Mr O'Brien confirmed that he remembered having a two-minute telephone conversation with Mr Mandelson.
Mr Mandelson was then forced to resign as Northern Ireland Secretary but, once again, maintained he had done nothing wrong.
He blamed his second departure on a "muddle" that led to himself and other senior figures giving conflicting accounts.
A subsequent independent report into the so-called "cash for passports" affair by Sir Anthony Hammond QC found in Mr Mandelson's favour, concluding that neither he, nor anyone else, had done anything improper in the affair.
Despite that there appeared little prospect of a resurrection for his twice foiled Cabinet career and a long walk into the political wilderness loomed.
Mr Mandelson had been one of the key architects of New Labour, replacing the party's red flag logo with the red rose and pioneering the use of rapid rebuttal units, radiopagers for MPs and the repetitive television soundbite.
But he was always deeply unpopular with those who clung to traditional Labour values and regarded him as a champagne socialist.
Whether true or not the story that he once mistook mushy peas for "guacamole dip" at a fish and chip shop in Hartlepool says much about how he was viewed by some of his colleagues.
When he stood up in Hartlepool in 2001, after keeping his seat in Parliament in the General Election, Mr Mandelson gave a bizarre, emotionally charged speech in which he proclaimed "I am a fighter, not a quitter" and referred to his "inner steel".
That was greeted by many as the last throes of a politician on the way to oblivion and one election worker at Labour headquarters was heard to say: "He's truly lost it."
Then he became a highly influential cabinet minister again in 2008-10. Omitted that bit for some reason
Every time I watched Mandelson on TV, his pompous self absorbed ego dominated over what he was actually saying, the unnerving alliance with Blair's New Labour didn't help.
lmao that zoom in on the falling flowers, slow fade to mandelson's face. truly terrifying
How was a person allowed to get so much influence as this man..
By turning up
I lose my mind at ppl who see nefarious conspiracy any time someone gets power, political party meetings are so sparsely populated these days you could get real power if you had some ability and could be bothered showing up so I’ve got no time for ppl who cry that ppl who can be bothered actually gain some power
I can't believe that all this happened nearly 20 years ago.
Twenty fucking years which has dumped us so deep in the shit that we now ask "has everything hitler warned us about come true"?
@@dreamdiction What??!!
@@peterembranch5797 Look around you, everything he warned us about has come true. British and French declared war on Germany and made allies with Stalin to stop Germany destroying communism.
‘New Labour’ sewed the seeds of destruction in the country.
@@pippipster6767 Fax John Major was such a good PM, but people believe the MSM lies put out to overshadow the great things the Major gov did and people voted for B-Liar. Ironically 1997 is officially the year there British Empire ended…
Mandelson represents not only what is wrong with the Labour Party, but what is wrong with The World in general and British politics in particular. A classic example of what happens when the end justifies the means.
so very right
I don't think that there is such a thing as the real Peter Mandelson.
Yes. And the same can be said of TB.
Classic sociopath or npd type.
something of the night about him
Undeniably ambitious man who backed both horses, Blair and Brown, in those early days and though stopped in his tracks by his own greed and stupidity, is living a very nice Champagne Socialist life like his mentor, Neil K.
It wasn't a case of 'both horses' then. There were many 'horses'. Mandleson backed Blair and Brown because they were from his wing of the party - he wanted either of them to win as opposed to someone from the left.
Kinnock like father like son
Instead of 'The Real Peter Mandelson,' for a horrified moment I thought it said 'The Rev Peter Madelson'
Hahaha 😂
His moustache looks like a very unwilling participant 🤣
It was a signal at that time, like the ring on the little finger is now
Malevolent slime who tore the heart out of the Labour Party
I agree with Leo, I do find the Labour Party docs way more interesting than Tory ones, it must be to do with the characters involved.
The Labour Party sadly has always been something of a self made soap opera
This is fascinating stuff. But of course, it's now way out of date. I'd like to see an up to date version. PM did plenty after this period.
What sort of socalism did he represent, certainly not that which our grandfathers fought for, he represented himself. This is the unacceptable face of our political class,
Modernisation of the Labour party Stuff the working class
blair ruined labour
No doubt he did but look at the rubbish we have in now, mostly middle class liberals who not only have never had a proper job , hate the working class
tbf on corbyn i think he cares more about the working class than blair did. he's an actual socialist for starters and for years now he's kept the same view. he's the first real labour leader since foot
stanley james Lol Mandleson, Blair & Campbell made it all electable. It worked well.
it was electable before new labour. remember how popular smith was before he died or how unpopular major was 1992-1997. labour won 1997 because people hated major
Peter Meddlesome
The worst of the New Labour cronies. Tore the heart and soul out of the Labour Party
what, by winning three elections? Is the 'heart and soul' of the Labour Party to lose every election to the Tories just so you can wallow in self righteousness? You lot are an absolute bunch of morons. Your moral vanity and self indulgence is off the Richter Scale. You betray everyone that you claim to care for, just so you can feel good about how "superior" your morality is. If you want to see what ripped the heart and soul of the Labour Party, take a long hard look at Jeremy Corbyn instead. Worst electoral defeat for decades and destroying the party's reputation with the appalling anti-Semites whose support he accepted.
Mandelson with a moustache looks Tooo much like Basil Fawlty..... :(
hes like something out of the Omen
The Labour Aristocrat. I could never listen to and watch Mandelson without reminding myself he's in the Labour Party.
Only just
Grandson of Herbert Morrison who was always plotting against Clem Attlee
Mandelson me of Zachary Smith in Lost in Space. About as trustworthy.
Good socialist. Now a Lord, lives in a £10m home and has a pension £100,000 pa. No wonder Lord Kinnock thinks Peter is "made of good stuff".
Clonmore Class envy or crass envy?
@@aislingmichaelaoneill1028 envy? It's public money that's made him rich it's not like he built a business from scratch 😂😂😂 weird kid you
Champagne socialism in full effect.
The essence of socialism --- mansions for me, bog standard council estate for thee
He has a bit of the character of his grandfather , Morrison who was constantly undermining Clem Attlee
I actually can’t understand how kinnock lost in 1992... against John sappy Major!! How did that happen??
The Sun wot won it
George Job Because, for all his faults and greyness, Major is that rare thing, a decent politician.
His pride came before a fall
But he lied about Victorian values whilst carryout an extra marital affair with Edwina Currie; showing his true deceitful nature, ask his wife about his decency!@@mscott3918
labour were actually worse
3.44 STOP RIGHT THERE !!!!!!! & enjoy the hair.Nono go back & enjoy .
Mandelson was Very slimy,etc.... :( Statistically there are More Millonairres/Billionairres in the Labour party than the Tory party.... :( Mandelson/Tony Blair/Tony Benn,etc,etc.... :(
Justify that assertion.
He covers up scandles,a very dark man
This programme began with a stunt snd continued to describe a stunt throughout.
Compounded, He wanted to be in charge and have things his way and would do anything to ensure it happened.
As a game plan, sounds like a good move.
I dunno about you but I'm always alarmed by floaters,usually after a curry.
Ha ha ha excellant....A real turd
What is wrong with these documentary makers? They forgot to mention that he was re employed in the cabinet!! Also why would you fire someone for taking out a legal loan??? Really stupid!
Mandelson rejoined the cabinet in October 1999 - so I'm not sure it's a big condemnation of a documentary completed in April 1999 that it failed to mention it. There is more to politics than mere legality; his resignation in December 1998 was more over the image problem when a senior government minister is enormously indebted to another.
An always irelevent political politicians.
More able in his own head than in reality..Labour now 15 years out of power...
Is this about Pet Fondlbum ?.
OH ok look at the plastic flowers in water !!.
He sums up left-wing politics - scheming, righteous, perverse, and hypocritical!
He’s a right winger.
21:11 Joy Johnson starts a sentence and Clin Byrne (?) finishes. er, would be better to have the end of Ms Johnson‘s sentence and the beginning of the second one, surely? Bit of editorial license, to say the least...
Nice to see Brian Walden, though. Weekend world was a magnificent programme, but I never realised just how leftwing it was, through and through. I don‘t know about David Cox but Aaronovitz, Peter Jay, Mandelson... Walden was brilliant but an ex-Labour MP. People don‘t realise who has been controlling news & current affairs coverage for years
It would be unfortunate to be him.
Handy Mandy. _motto;_ We know where you live!
What a ridiculous little man he really is.
Yeah, but he won elections, didn't he? Maybe the left of the labour party should try that some time.
Best
Horrific slimeball
29:43 lol
Peter Mandelson should know that the term "bourgeois" means nothing.
On the contrary, he knew damn well that it meant people like him
He is an out and out narcissist.
John Smith was right about him
I certainly can see why some people dislike him. But I'm not one of them. I wish him well.
Mandelson is only interested in money, Russian oligarchs, and boys.
”God knows when he ever got to bed.”
Lol.
Well he didnt ,it was someone else's bed.
He seemed to have had a lot of “political advisors “
is that some kind of slimy homophobic comment? All people in such positions have lots of advisers.
What horrible man Peter Mandelson is. I hope he gets what he deserves
and all the new labour traitors
"Look what he's become" yah he's not a totalitarian criminal like you, anymore.
THAT'S AN EASY ANSWER, IT DEPENDS ON WHICH DRESS HE/SHE WEARS.
What the fuck? Mate, it's 2020. That may have been 'funny' in 1950, but that was 70 years ago. Now, it's just pathetic homophobia.
And NO mention of his Jewish ancestry!
JP VOGEL
On one side.
Is that relevant? I doubt he's religious.