Peter Mandelson
Headline:
I’ll be more careful, says Lying Lord Mandelson
Synopsis:
Lying, slimy, three-faced, back-stabbing, scumbag, Peter Mendacity Mandelson comes clean. Again.
Lord Mandelson has admitted that the public were misled about when he first met the oligarch Oleg Deripaska and acknowledged that his new ministerial role requires him to be more careful about his contacts with the wealthy.
His presence on board the aluminium tycoon’s yacht in Corfu this summer has dogged him since his return to the Cabinet. After a week dominated by claims about the Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne, who also accepted Mr Deripaska’s hospitality on the Queen K, the focus has returned to the Business Secretary.
In a letter to The Times today, Lord Mandelson corrects a previous statement from his office which suggested that he had first met the Russian in 2006. “This was not the case: to the best of my recollection we first met in 2004 and I met him several times subsequently,” he writes.
*Clearly, this is not an interview, but this letter will set much of today's news agenda.
And, to think, Britain made this bastard a Lord.
- Publish date:
- 25 October 2008
- Source:
- The Times
- Media:
