‘Confidential – that gets me going’: the photographer behind the HS2 exposé How Steve Back has broken a number of exclusives by snapping the documents of unsuspecting politicians and officials The Guardian - UK · Oct 7, 2023
Labour figures from 1997 victory warn Starmer against cautious approach Exclusive: People involved in Tony Blair’s victory believe party needs to set out much clearer policy platform to win voters’ trust The Guardian - UK · Oct 5, 2023
Pat McFadden: the most powerful Labour politician most have never heard of Role preparing for election will see McFadden shape party’s direction, but it is likely to be done quietly The Guardian - UK · Sep 5, 2023
Files reveal terms ministers were warned not to use in Northern Ireland Advice was part of briefing for Peter Mandelson when he became Labour’s Northern Ireland secretary in 1999 The Guardian - UK · Aug 23, 2023
Mandelson was advised not to refer to Ireland as ‘The Free State’ Declassified files reveal briefing notes given to new Northern Ireland Office ministers in 1999. The Independent UK · Aug 23, 2023
‘Politically charged’ option of closing rail network sections suggested in 2000 Declassified papers reveal tensions during the first meeting of a new rail task force in 2000. The Independent UK · Aug 23, 2023
Brussels tells EU states: Ignore UK on post-Brexit trade Exclusive: Former European trade commissioner Peter Mandelson says trying to circumvent Brussels was always going to backfire The Independent UK · Jul 31, 2023
OPINION - Why Sadiq Khan is pressing ahead with Ulez extension “Why are you doing this now?“ The greatest moment in election night history (and I’ve recently re-watched a bunch of them, sadly) wasn’t Michael Portillo in 1997 or Peter Mandelson in 2001, but Stephen Kinnock in 2017. Evening Standard · Jul 24, 2023
Jeffrey Epstein 'planned to hire Prince Andrew to be an adviser for new consultancy' Emails sent between paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his private banker claimed to show they discussed hiring Prince Andrew as a "star advisor" for a new consultancy firm Daily Mirror · Jul 9, 2023
Matt Hancock seeks to humiliate himself in public again After an astonishing rise, the fall of Matt Hancock from pandemic Health Secretary to floundering reality TV entrant somehow still fails to win sympathy from the British public. Funny that, writes John Rentoul The Independent UK · Jun 28, 2023
‘A tour de force’: tributes pour in for Margaret McDonagh, linchpin of Tony Blair’s New Labour Party’s first female general secretary, who has died aged 61, was essential part of team behind party’s 1997 landslide victory The Guardian - UK · Jun 24, 2023
Bank report details Peter Mandelson’s apparent contact with Jeffrey Epstein JP Morgan report from 2019 found Epstein seemed to keep ‘particularly close relationship’ with Labour peer The Guardian - UK · Jun 21, 2023
Jeffrey Epstein was ‘particularly close’ to Peter Mandelson – shock report Mandelson ‘stayed at Epstein’s New York home’ when he was Labour minister, emails show The Independent UK · Jun 21, 2023
Alastair Campbell tells hacking trial he was targeted by private investigators Trial over claims brought by Prince Harry and other high-profile figures against Mirror Group Newspapers continues The Independent UK · May 24, 2023
Evening Standard · May 23, 2023 Alistair Campbell tells Mirror hacking trial he was targeted by private investigators Mirror Group Newspapers is contesting the claims over allegations its journalists were linked to voicemail interception, securing information through deception and hiring private investigators for unlawful activities
The Guardian - UK · May 23, 2023 Alastair Campbell tells high court Piers Morgan authorised reporters to hack into bank account Former editor allegedly told reporter to obtain details of Campbell’s mortgage payments in 1999
Daily Mirror · May 12, 2023 'Keir Starmer should give us policies instead of fuelling talk of Lib-Dem pact' The chronic state of the Tories should have an emboldened Labour Party smelling blood - but instead, the noise from the top is of potential coalition
The Independent UK · Apr 17, 2023 Starmer needs attack ads because Labour can’t count on right-wing press, says Mandelson New Labour architect says he would have happily signed-off on ad condemned as ‘gutter politics’
The Independent UK · Mar 19, 2023 Whitewash: The David Kelly saga that ended in tragedy and tarnished New Labour forever It was set up to examine the weapons expert’s death, but the Hutton Inquiry is remembered for a ferocious battle between the government and the BBC, Andrew Grice reports
The Independent UK · Feb 19, 2023 ‘Liz Truss was right’: Keir Starmer wants 30% of purchased food to be British Labour will set out targets for produce bought by schools, hospitals, prisons and government
The Guardian - UK · Feb 7, 2023 Rishi Sunak’s Whitehall carve up merely rearranges the deckchairs The prime minister hopes this reorganisation will bring faster growth, but he will be disappointed
The Guardian - UK · Jan 22, 2023 And Then What? by Catherine Ashton review – colourful insider account of European diplomacy The first and presumably last Briton ever to lead European foreign policy gives us a glimpse of a collaborative approach now sadly lost
Evening Standard · Jan 4, 2023 Peter Mandelson: ‘Starmer has seen off Corbynite extremists but has more to do to reinvent Labour’ Sir Keir Starmer has "sorted out the extremists" on the Labour left but has "more to do" to reinvent the party, Peter Mandelson has said.
The Independent UK · Dec 29, 2022 Peter Mandelson pressed Alliance Party to redesignate as unionists Declassified papers show the cross-community party resisted pressure from the then secretary of state.
The Guardian - UK · Nov 13, 2022 Controversial £360m NHS England data platform ‘lined up’ for Trump backer’s firm Patients will have no say over records going to Palantir, the software giant run by billionaire Republican backer