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Doubt cast on Labour government’s efficiencies plan
The last Labour government’s plans to make £35 billion in efficiencies across Whitehall were unrealistic and unlikely to deliver the promised savings, auditors have found.
20 Jul 2010
Jam and Jerusalem won't create a Big Society
Labour lacks a coherent voice to oppose the Coalition's 'scorched earth' policies, argues Mary Riddell.
19 Jul 2010
Dormant bank accounts to pay for Big Society projects
The idea to make use of money lying wasted in old and forgotten bank accounts was first included in Labour’s general election manifesto in 2005 and became law three years later.
19 Jul 2010
Ed Miliband raises thousands in Barack Obama style small donation campaign
Ed Miliband, the Labour leadership contender, is seeking to follow the example of United States President Barack Obama by securing victory with the help of small donations.
19 Jul 2010
Doctor Who star Matt Smith is staying put, says Karen Gillan
Karen Gillan, who plays Doctor Who's assistant, says Matt Smith isn't going to Los Angeles
18 Jul 2010
Is Labour a party without a purpose?
The Labour leadership contest serves only to highlight a movement bereft of ideas and direction, says Patrick Hennessy.
18 Jul 2010
Vintage Mandelson
Lord Mandelson talks to Matthew Norman about life with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, his plans for the future – and why he could be the next Jonathan Ross.
17 Jul 2010
Vintage Mandelson
Lord Mandelson talks to Matthew Norman about life with Blair and Brown, his future plans and why he could be the next Jonathan Ross.
17 Jul 2010
Diane Abbott: Labour leadership rivals are ‘geeky’
Diane Abbott has accused her Labour leadership rivals of being ‘geeky young men in suits’ in the first personal attack of the contest to replace Gordon Brown.
16 Jul 2010
The storyteller is flawed, but he does have a salutary tale to tell
Lord Mandelson has written the best account so far of the extent of the destruction wreaked by the Blair-Brown rivalry, says Charles Moore.
16 Jul 2010
Cherie Blair finds a kindred spirit in Frank Bruno
Frank Bruno may have put Carole Caplin's nose out of joint
16 Jul 2010
Mandy's poisonous pen will do Britain good
Mandelson's memoir exposes the moral bankruptcy at the heart of the Brown government, says Jeff Randall.
15 Jul 2010
Mandelson's history, memoir or malice?
Modern political memoirs – not least those by Alastair Campbell and Peter Mandelson – show politicians in a very bad light, says Anthony Howard.
15 Jul 2010
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Lord Mandelson's mortgage still mystifies
Lord Mandelson causes confusion by leaving details of his £750,000 mortgage unchanged.
15 Jul 2010
Peter Mandelson says he is gay role model
Lord Mandelson has claimed he is a ''good role model'' for gay people because of the success he achieved in public life.
15 Jul 2010
Labour's ghastly soap opera
Telegraph View: The wider interests of the nation seem not to matter, as petty rivalries are played out.
14 Jul 2010
Lord Prescott: Brown was unrealistic on climate change
Lord Prescott has used his maiden speech in the House of Lords to criticise Gordon Brown for seeking an unrealistic deal on climate change.
14 Jul 2010
Tony Blair called Brown 'mad, bad, and dangerous'
Lord Mandelson's memoirs detail the breakdown of the relationship between Blair and Gordon Brown.
14 Jul 2010
Sorry, Peter Mandelson, but I'm afraid your memory is playing tricks
Lord Mandelson could have done worse than ask to see my diaries of the time, writes Alastair Campbell.
14 Jul 2010
Old Lefties turn Right
Telegraph View: It seems middle-aged socialists want to keep their wealth.
13 Jul 2010
Ed Miliband: Lord Mandelson book should ‘close chapter' on New Labour
Ed Miliband, the Labour leadership candidate, has said that the publication of Lord Mandelson’s autobiography this week should ‘close a chapter’ for the party.
13 Jul 2010
Google landmark: Tessa Jowell
The former Labour cabinet minister is displayed on Google Maps as a landmark, between Westminster Palace and 'Big Ben'.
13 Jul 2010
Brown's ministers 'believed Labour was finished'
Brown’s colleagues did not believe he could carry on as prime minister but did nothing to stop him, Lord Mandelson has revealed.
13 Jul 2010
Afghanistan timetable 'puts British troops at risk'
PM's signal of a five-year timetable for withdrawl risks encouraging Taliban to step up attacks, Nato chief says.
13 Jul 2010
Mandelson memoirs: Brown resigned on Blair's advice
Gordon Brown decided to resign as Prime Minister after Tony Blair told him that he had lost his mandate to govern, according to Lord Mandelson’s memoirs.
12 Jul 2010
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