As a result of his involvement in the violence, the then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Peter Mandelson had revoked Adair's early release and returned him to prison.

In 1985, Peter Mandelson was appointed as the Labour Party's director of communication ; previously, he had worked in television broadcasting.

Mandelson was able to secure close friendships within the Labour Party because of uncle Alexander Butler, who had worked alongside many important Labour politicians during the 1960s.

Mandelson contended that he had deliberately not taken part in any decisions relating to Robinson.

Mandelson had also not declared the loan to his building society ( the Britannia ) although they decided not to take any action, with the CEO stating " I am satisfied that the information given to us at the time of the mortgage application was accurate.

" Mandelson initially thought he could weather the press storm, but had to resign when it became clear that the Prime Minister thought nothing else would clear the air.

On 16 October 2000 it was reported that Robinson had " accused Peter Mandelson of lying to the Commons about the home loan affair that cost both of them their Government jobs.

Lord Mandelson said the Phoenix group had not shown an " ounce of humility " about the firm's demise and they owed an apology to the firm's employees and creditors.

In January 2001, immigration minister Barbara Roche revealed in a written Commons reply that Vaz, along with Peter Mandelson and other MPs, had contacted the Home Office about the Hinduja brothers.

It also became known that Peter Mandelson, then a member of the Commission, had accepted a trip to Jamaica from an unrevealed source.

After an enquiry failed to find the source of the leak, Labour MP Peter Mandelson demanded assurance from Howard that Cameron had not been responsible, which Howard gave.

Lord Mandelson said the Phoenix group had not shown an " ounce of humility " about the firm's demise and they owed an apology to the firm's employees and creditors.

Shayler earned notoriety after being prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act 1989 for his passing secret documents to the Mail on Sunday in August 1997 that alleged that MI5 was paranoid about socialists, and that it had previously investigated Labour Party ministers Peter Mandelson, Jack Straw and Harriet Harman.

In a live interview on BBC television's Newsnight the journalist and former Conservative MP Matthew Parris had identified Mandelson as a fellow homosexual.

Mandelson, a former editor of Weekend World, and Birt had been colleagues at LWT.

On 9 October 2008, the school announced that 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature Harold Pinter, who attended the school in 1950 – 51, had agreed to become its president, succeeding Labour Party politician Peter Mandelson, who had rejoined the government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown ; previous presidents of the school included Dame Judi Dench and Lord Laurence Olivier.

He was the only Hartlepool member on the shortlist when Peter Mandelson stepped down as Labour MP for the town in September 2004 and was easily selected as the Labour Party candidate for the by-election ; during the later stages of the campaign, three local members-one of whom featured in Conservative Party leaflets and another of whom had earlier failed to win the nomination-were reported in the Guardian newspaper ( which subsequently endorsed Liberal Democrat rival Jody Dunn ) to have been unhappy that no other local candidate had been available.

The second Commissioner was Elizabeth Filkin ( 1999-2002 ), whose first case involved Peter Mandelson and a large loan which he had failed to declare in the Register of Members ' Interests.

He played an important role in the run-up to the 1997 general election, working with Peter Mandelson to co-ordinate Labour's campaign.

Labour's delegation for negotiations included Peter Mandelson, Andrew Adonis, Ed Miliband, and Ed Balls.

By 1986, the party's position appeared to strengthen further with excellent local election results and a thorough rebranding of the party under the direction of Kinnock's director of communications Peter Mandelson.

* Peter Mandelson – architect of " New Labour ", several times a UK Cabinet minister, and Trade Commissioner in the Barroso Commission 2004 – 2008.

It was held by the Conservatives between 1959 – 1964, and in the 1992 general election, Edward Leadbitter stood down and was succeeded by the former Labour Director of Communications Peter Mandelson.

* 12 October – Peter Mandelson arrives in Belfast as the new Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.

In fact the roots of the transformation probably date back to the appointment of Peter Mandelson as the party's communication director in 1985, but under Blair ( and Sawyer ) rapidly accelerated.

Mandelson bought a home in Notting Hill in 1996 with the assistance of an interest-free loan of £ 373, 000 from Geoffrey Robinson, a millionaire Labour MP who was also in the Government and subject to an inquiry into his business dealings by Mandelson's department.

She was succeeded by Peter Mandelson in July 1998.

" Local MP Peter Mandelson wrote to the Secretary of State for National Heritage, David Mellor, in June 1992, saying " Yorkshire and Tyne Tees are motivated by the interests of their shareholders, not their viewers, and need to make urgent savings ... it is quite clear that this is not so much a merger but a gobbling up of a smaller franchise held by a larger company.

Whilst her deteriorating relationship with Unionists was the key reason Mowlam was replaced as Northern Ireland Secretary in October 1999 by Peter Mandelson, her move to the relatively lowly position of Cabinet Office Minister may have involved other factors, notably her health and her popularity.

Known for his campaigning commitment and skill-and once described by the Mail on Sunday ( 25 July 1999 ) as, with Peter Stothard, editor of The Times, and Peter Mandelson, one of " three men with a formidable combination of power and influence "-he secured a saving of £ 240 million in the annual NHS drugs budget following a successful campaign to regulate pharmaceutical company practices ( 2001 ).

A reception was held after the ceremony at the fashionable London St John restaurant in Smithfield, attended by, among others, the politician Peter Mandelson and Trevor Philips, chairman of the Commission for Equalities and Human Rights, both former colleagues at LWT.

On 9 November 2009 Business Secretary Peter Mandelson announced a further review into fees and university funding in England, led by John Browne, former chief executive of BP.

from: 09 / 11 / 2009 till: 09 / 11 / 2009 color: LAB $ right text :" 9th Nov 2009-Browne review commissioned by Business Secretary ~ Peter Mandelson "

This came after a complaint made to the European Commissioner for Trade, Peter Mandelson, by the German dairy trader, Egenberger.

Some recent resignations due to personal errors of judgment or impropriety include the resignation of Ron Davies, the Secretary of State for Wales, for sexual misconduct in 1998, and the resignation of Peter Mandelson, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, for failing to disclose a substantial loan by a Cabinet colleague in 1999.

Blair, in conjunction with Peter Mandelson, Gordon Brown and Alastair Campbell, created the New Labour ethos by embracing many aspects of Thatcherite beliefs into Labour as the " Third Way ".

* In Defence of Globalisation by Peter Mandelson

In 2010, Diamond was described as " the unacceptable face " of banking by the then business secretary Lord Mandelson, citing Diamond's high level of pay ( quoted as £ 63 million ) and lack of humility.

In announcing his intention to run for the leadership, David Miliband declared that the New Labour era was over, and following the publication of Tony ' Blair's memoirs on 1 September 2010, Ed Miliband said " I think it is time to move on from Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and Peter Mandelson and to move on from the New Labour establishment and that is the candidate that I am at this election who can best turn the page.

In what was seen as a reference to the close interest in the Dome from Mandelson, known at the time as so-called " Dome Secretary ", and his successor Lord Falconer of Thoroton, Ms Page told the committee: " I made several attempts to persuade ministers that standing back from the Dome would be good for them as well as good for the Dome ".

1 case of patent infringement in China .” At the EU-China summit 2007, EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson said, " I regard the SCHNEIDER case as a test case of the level playing field in China on intellectual property protection that we want to see ".

The European Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson characterized the collapse as a " collective failure ".

On 7 June 2009, emails that were highly critical of Gordon Brown that Peter Mandelson sent Draper in January 2008 were leaked to the News of the World which claimed that Brown was " insecure " and a " self-conscious person, physically and emotionally ".