What’s this in today’s Spectator but Lord Mandelson praising George Osborne. “If the Tories win the next election,” he writes, “it will be down to his political skill and determination. And his being joined at the hip to Cameron. If Blair and Brown had managed the same double act, Labour would still be in power.”
Some may recall the summer of 2008 when Mandelson and Osborne found themselves in a taverna on Corfu. By the time they got back to London, Osborne let it be known that Mandelson had “dripped pure poison” about the then PM Gordon Brown.
“It was surprising to hear him [Mandelson] say he is joined at the hip with Gordon Brown,” Osborne said in an interview at the time. Perhaps Mandelson is mellowing in his old age. He announces his plans to rent a “modest dwelling in deepest Wiltshire” but since it’s in the vicinity of Nat Rothschild’s country pile we expect “modest” to be a bit, well, modest.
