Lord Peter Mandelson is to the “Third Way” what Roger Stone is to populism – an alte kameraden from the freewheeling early days. A pinstriped broker and fixer. Whatever ultimately comes of the association with Jeffrey Epstein that has just cost him his job as ambassador to the United States, that such a figure was ever appointed to the role in the first place is telling. It shows that contemporary Britain is an insular sort of place, virtually deaf to the outside world.

To Britain’s political class, Mandelson is something of an in-joke

To Britain’s political class, Mandelson is something of an in-joke. He was one of the principal architects of New Labour, the country’s analog to Clintonism, which brought Tony Blair to office in 1997 with a large parliamentary majority.

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