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Peter Mandelson Articles

Where did it all go right?

Peter Mandelson and Spencer Livermore exchange reflections on 20 years of running Labour’s election campaigns Dear Spencer, The Labour party still (just about) retains a lot of institutional memory about how we have fought elections since 1997. We had a good run until...
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Labour is a national party or it is nothing

Full text of the opening speech of the second day of Progress political weekend 2017, given by Peter Mandelson: Our situation is bad, not for the first time and not yet terminal. Labour’s whole history is one of set backs and resets, the first couple of which didn’t...
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Strike a deal

There are still trade options open for Britain This year’s referendum was the most divisive, polarising event in Britain’s postwar history – which is why you would have thought the government would wish to respect the result delivered by one half of the country but...
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An existential moment for the UK as a manufacturer

This is arguably an existential moment for the United Kingdom as a manufacturer. The closure of Port Talbot's blast furnace would mean we no longer make steel as opposed to processing and recycling steel. If we allow this to happen we will lose the modern, high...
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