Peter Mandelson

Who is Peter Mandelson?

Peter Benjamin Mandelson, Baron Mandelson PC is a British Labour Party politician and President of the international think tank Policy Network. He was the Member of Parliament for Hartlepool from 1992 to 2004, and served in a number of Cabinet positions under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He was also the European Commissioner for Trade between 2004 and 2008.

Mandelson was one of a group of people behind the rebranding of the Labour Party as "New Labour" and its subsequent landslide victory in the 1997 election. He resigned twice from the Cabinet before leaving Parliament to take up an appointment as a European Commissioner. He later rejoined the Cabinet for a third time, being made a life peer in the House of Lords. Today he is the President of Policy Network, an international policy think tank, and has also been the High Steward of Hull since 2013.