I know most CoffeeHousers have more than had their fill of Peter Mandelson stories, but it’s worth reading the quotes from an interview with him in today’s Times. Why so? Well, because they distill some of the main attacks Labour will aim at the Tories over the coming months.
The central charge is that – while Cameron and Osborne are, in Mandelson’s words, “crowd-pleasers” and “good image-makers” – they have not “changed the thinking of their party”. Indeed, to illustrate this spin-over-substance point, Mandy digs up another story from that Corfu dinner party last summer:
“In today’s interview [Mandelson] suggests that last August — presumably in the same Corfu conversation, although he does not confirm that — Mr Osborne had ‘boasted’ to him that he had just made a speech about the Tories being the party of fairness and that he had ‘got away with it’.”
Even knowing how Mandy & Co.
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