*Tony Benn recorded this assessment, which was made in a comment to the then Labour MP for Bishop Auckland, Derek Foster, in his Diary on 6th December 1996 just months before Labour won a landslide victory in the May 1997 Election.
It underlines again that Benn and others on the left had the measure of Mandelson 30 years ago, while Blair and later Starmer did not.
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