Peter Mandelson is adamant: “I’ve always been capable of being diplomatic.” Indeed, the Labour peer widely known as the Prince of Darkness, aka the Dark Lord, reveals that his sinuous skills have won the recognition of none other than President George W Bush. “Do you know what he calls me?” Mandelson asks. “Silvertongue.”
All this is probably just as well, given that Mandelson has just been assigned to the most daunting job in British diplomacy: His Majesty King Charles III’s…
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