...business secretary, Peter Mandelson, will set out plans for a new age of "industrial activism" when he gives the annual Hugo Young memorial lecture today, saying the government must do more to support services and manufacturing for after the recession,...
...to protect children from tobacco would be included in the Queen's speech on Wednesday, 3rd December. However, pressure from Peter Mandelson and the Department of Business and Regulatory Reform (BERR) may have jeopardised these proposals which include a...
...Mandelson has been linked to a series of vicious personal attacks on Gordon Brown and other senior Labour figures after banning explosive details of his private indiscretions from being published in a new book. A series of press reports that described Mr...
...Dec. 1: Peter Mandelson is to lead a 150-strong delegation consisting of British captains of industry to Mumbai next month to demonstrate the UKs unequivocal support for India, the secretary of state for business, enterprise and regulatory reform...
Background
Peter Benjamin Mandelson (born 21 October 1953) is the current British Commissioner of the European Union for Trade. Before taking this post, he was a British Labour politician, and served as Member of Parliament for Hartlepool for twelve years. He is widely regarded as one of the main architects of the modern Labour Party and its re-branding as "New Labour". He twice resigned from the cabinet of Tony Blair's government. Before Labour came to power, he was author (with Roger Liddle) of The Blair Revolution (1996); more recently he contributed to the book The City in Europe and the World (2005).
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