The politician now known as Lord Mandelson is an unmitigated stranger to the truth who has been prepared to use the power of office to bully and obfuscate. This is not the verdict of some political obsessive merely drawing conclusions from the clouded career of the man who, until last week, was the United Kingdom’s man in Washington. It’s my view as a journalist – former news editor of two national newspapers, head of the Sunday Times Insight investigative team and reporter for the Daily Mail – having once had occasion to question Mandelson about his financial dealings.

His response to my questions revealed a side to the man at considerable variance with what might reasonably be expected from a person holding elected office. Alone in Fleet Street, in early 1997, the Daily Mail

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