NELSON Mandela’s attempts to act as an intermediary over the Lockerbie bombing led to tensions with Tony Blair’s Labour government, according to newly-released official documents.
Files released by the National Archives at Kew, London, showed officials in Number 10 feared the former South African president’s efforts to act as a go-between with the Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi were “unlikely to be helpful”.
Blair’s aides said Mandela believed “vehemently” the UK Government had “reneged on promises” over lifting of sanctions, but claimed he was suffering “selective memory” at best over what had been agreed, the documents show.
