Results tagged “Peter Mandelson” from Birmingham Mail - Is It Just Me

The cynic in me wonders if New Labour's plans for reforming the Lords, particularly the bit about peers being able to resign so they can stand again as an MP has anything to do with the return of a certain Peter Mandelson riding out of the moonset from Brussels like a knight in matt black armour to spread a little darkness over the land.

Since the now Lord Mandelson arrived to be festooned in every title left in the toy box as Gordon's enforcer we have seen a drift towards Brussels, his close friend Tony Blair announced as Britain's candidate for President of Europe and now a move to allow him to resign his unelected seat in the Lords just before the next election to no doubt fight a rock solid Labour seat so he can be reinvented as an MP - a seat no doubt vacated by a compliant son of the party pensioned off to the reformed upper house.

Win or lose he will be back plotting at the centre of Labour power instead of pulling strings in the Lords.