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Lord Mandelson

The Right Honourable
The Lord Mandelson
PC
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First Secretary of State
In office
5 June 2009 – 11 May 2010
Monarch Elizabeth II
Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Preceded by John Prescott (2007)
Succeeded by William Hague
Lord President of the Council
In office
5 June 2009 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Preceded by The Baroness Royall of Blaisdon
Succeeded by Nick Clegg
Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
In office
5 June 2009 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Preceded by Himself (Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform)
John Denham (Innovation, Universities and Skills)
Succeeded by Vince Cable
Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
In office
3 October 2008 – 5 June 2009
Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Preceded by John Hutton
Succeeded by Himself (Business, Innovation and Skills)
President of the Board of Trade
In office
3 October 2008 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Preceded by John Hutton
Succeeded by Vince Cable
In office
27 July 1998 – 23 December 1998
Prime Minister Tony Blair
Preceded by Margaret Beckett
Succeeded by Stephen Byers
European Commissioner for Trade
In office
22 November 2004 – 3 October 2008
President José Manuel Barroso
Preceded by Pascal Lamy
Succeeded by Catherine Ashton
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
In office
11 October 1999 – 24 January 2001
Prime Minister Tony Blair
Preceded by Mo Mowlam
Succeeded by John Reid
Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
In office
27 July 1998 – 23 December 1998
Prime Minister Tony Blair
Preceded by Margaret Beckett
Succeeded by Stephen Byers
Minister without portfolio
In office
2 May 1997 – 27 July 1998
Prime Minister Tony Blair
Preceded by Brian Mawhinney
Succeeded by Charles Clarke
Member of Parliament
for Hartlepool
In office
9 April 1992 – 8 September 2004
Preceded by Ted Leadbitter
Succeeded by Iain Wright
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
13 October 2008
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born Peter Benjamin Mandelson
(1953-10-21) 21 October 1953 (age 63)
Hampstead Garden, London, England
Political party Labour
Domestic partner Reinaldo Avila da Silva
Alma mater St Catherine's College, Oxford
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Peter Benjamin Mandelson, Baron Mandelson PC (born 21 October 1953) is a British Labour politician, president of international think tank Policy Network and Chairman of strategic advisory firm Global Counsel.

He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Hartlepool from 1992 to 2004, and held a number of Cabinet positions under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He was also the European Commissioner for Trade between 2004 and 2008.

Mandelson was one of several individuals responsible for the rebranding of the Labour Party as New Labour before its subsequent victory in the 1997 election. He resigned twice from the Cabinet before leaving Parliament to take up an appointment as a European Commissioner. He later rejoined the Cabinet for a third time after being created a Life Peer, sitting on the Labour benches in the House of Lords.

Peter Mandelson was born in Hampstead Garden Suburb, Middlesex, on 21 October 1953, the son of Mary Joyce (née Morrison) and George Norman Mandelson. His father's family was Jewish; his grandfather had founded the Harrow United Synagogue. His father (known as Tony) was the advertising manager of The Jewish Chronicle who was commissioned as an officer in the Royal Dragoons in World War II. On his mother's side Peter is the grandson of Herbert Morrison, the London County Council Leader and Labour Cabinet Minister in the Attlee ministry.


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