Perhaps only Peter Mandelson could be shockingly candid and shamelessly duplicitous in the same memorable sentence: “We are intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich as long as they pay their taxes” (Report, 2 February). And perhaps the only virtue of the incorrigible is that they often supply – unwittingly – their own excruciating epitaphs.
Paul McGilchrist
Cromer, Norfolk
• In 2017, Peter Mandelson said of the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn: “I work every single day in some small way to bring forward the end of his tenure in office.” That should have been enough to expel him from Labour, which would have saved a lot of trouble for the party now.
David Sang
Brighton
• If we needed further proof that Keir Starmer has the worst political instincts, surely Mandelson is it. Much as he tries to ape the hideous Tony Blair, Keir just can’t do politics.
Amanda Baker
Edinburgh
• Tony Blair said his mission to transform the Labour party would not be complete until it had learned to love Peter Mandelson. You’re going to have to wait a while, Tony.
Geoff Booth
Knebworth, Hertfordshire
• The question is not “Did Peter Mandelson break the law?” but “If Peter Mandelson didn’t break the law, what is wrong with the law?”
Sarah James
Monmouth
• The big question, surely, is did Reinaldo Avila da Silva pass his osteopathy exams (How much did the Epstein poison infect Britain? Starmer had better find out, and fast, 2 February)?
John Warburton
Edinburgh
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