Why Peter Mandelson as soon as advised me to f**okay off | Politics | News | EUROtoday

Peter Mandelson as soon as advised me to f**okay off. Most individuals now suppose it’s time he did the identical. The vulpine Labour grandee is desperately clinging on to his Peerage after quitting the House of Lords because the storm rages over his hyperlinks to Jeffrey Epstein. It was 16 years in the past when the Prince of Darkness delivered his acerbic barb to yours actually.

Back in 2010 he was already effectively into his third comeback, introduced into authorities to assist save Gordon Brown’s bacon. It failed. Brown capitulated on the election, which resulted in a hung parliament, in the end ushering in 14 years of Tory rule. Mandelson, inevitably, was on the centre of frantic Coalition negotiations as Labour, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats launched into days of political horse-trading.

On one such fever-pitched morning I noticed a serpent-like determine slithering its method alongside a dimly lit and gargoyle lined underpass on the parliamentary property.

It was Mandelson, in fact, so I rushed to quiz him on the negotiations.

He gave me quick shrift, the phrases oozing out of his sneer like crude oil from a leaking tanker.

The subsequent time I got here nose to nose with the Dark Lord was throughout his fourth political comeback at a glitzy champagne and cocktail celebration on a balmy February night time in Washington DC final yr.

Sir Keir Starmer had simply jetted in, with myself and a bunch of different political hacks in tow, to welcome the person he appointed as the brand new British ambassador to the US.

What he knew that night time was that Mandelson had been shut pals with paedophile financier Epstein.

It is these hyperlinks and subsequent bombshell revelations that can undoubtedly finish his political profession as soon as and for all.

And they could simply hasten the tip of Sir Keir’s too.