Terry Prone: No way back this time for Labour’s self-pitying moral chameleon Peter Mandelson

Power, influence, and position have been taken from Mandelson previously, and he always recovered. This time, however, no recovery is possible. He’s done

Peter Mandelson feared that details of his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted paedophile, would prove to be ‘embarrassing’.

‘I think we assumed the worst because of what had gone before.”

That’s what Alistair Campbell said, years ago, when the man currently known as Lord Mandelson had to do one of his serial resignations because of an accusation.