Tony Benn was in a small minority it seems to have spotted that Peter Mandelson was not the ideal person to have around well before Labour’s landslide victory in the May 1997 General Election.
He returned to the theme in a diary entry on 22nd May 1997 where he recorded a conversation with Colin Brown of The Independent. Brown told Benn that Mandelson was ‘absolutely loathed’ because ‘he’d ring up editors to put pressure on particular correspondents’
Neither Blair or later Starmer grasped the understanding of Mandelson that Benn had.
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