Now will we learn the truth about Saif’s British ties?

Now that Saif Gaddafi has been captured, the race will be on to interview him from a prison cell and ask what his business was with the various figures of the British establishment with whom he was so close. CoffeeHousers will remember the 2009 party at the Rothschilds’ manor in Corfu: Saif, Mandy and Nat Rothschild. A little later, Charles Moore revealed in The Spectator that the trio were later reunited in a shooting party at Lord Rothschild’s Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire. I spoke to Lord Mandelson a few weeks after the piece appeared, and thought CoffeeHousers may be interested in the transcript.

The noble lord was outraged at Charles’ piece – because it suggested he was also hanging out with Cherie Blair that night. ‘I never clapped eyes on Cherie Blair, she was nowhere to be seen unless she came after,’ he protested. The idea of being seen with her is ‘pretty unattractive’.