Welcome to the Readout. The top of the newsletter this week will be about the day’s news, while at the bottom we’re ...

Mandelson asked the Foreign Office to quietly check out the backgrounds of his fellow commissioners from the other EU nations ...

Yes, I know we said I'd be back on New Year's Eve, and I will. But some things won't wait. Keir Starmer must have calculated ...

In 2004, Peter Mandelson (back row, centre) wanted to know ‘rather more about’ his fellow EU commissioners Credit: Herwig Vergult/EPA After ambassadors were asked to provide responses by the ...

Championed by Peter Mandelson, the sinister minister-without-portfolio, it promised visitors the most fantastic day out in their lives. “Well, not quite so fantastic as walking the dog in ...

Your Roots Are Showing, Ireland's premiere folk music conference, will return for its 3rd annual edition this month. Learn ...

What matters more is momentum and there is no doubt that Reform has more of it. In 2025, we can expect it to move its tanks decisively on to the Tories’ lawn. It has long been the case that a ...

New structures and pronouncements mean little unless business takes them seriously — there is no appetite for talking shops ...

Labour should have the humility to involve Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage in talks with Donald Trump to achieve a UK national ...

Peter Mandelson has been appointed Britain’s new ambassador to Washington to steer the charm offensive. The new US President is threatening to launch crippling trade tariffs on the West - and ...