THE THIRD MAN
Life at the Heart of New Labour
PETER MANDELSON
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To my parents, Mary and Tony,who gave me my values and thebest upbringing anyone couldwish for
Contents
My maternal grandfather, Herbert Morrison, at the May Day parade in Hyde Park, 1939. (© Popperfoto/Getty Images)
My father and mother with my paternal grandfather, Norman Mandelson.
The budding young spin-doctor? On the phone, next to my father.
At Hendon County Grammar school.
With my mother and brother Miles at the Aldermaston anti-nuclear march in the 1960s.
With Gershom Nyaranga, Rural Dean of Musoma, Tanzania, 1972.
In my bedroom study in Princes Street, Oxford, 1976.
The Weekend World team at LWT. (© ITV/Rex Features)
Admiring the red roses with Tony Blair at the Labour Party conference in Blackpool, 1990. (© John Voos/The Independent)
Keeping a watchful eye on the platform at the same conference with Julie Hall and Philip Gould. (© John Voos/The Independent)
With Neil Kinnock in Clapham, south London, July 1990. (© Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
The Labour candidate for Hartlepool in the 1992 general election. (© Trevor Humphries/Financial Times)
At the dedication of a bench to the memory of my father, Hampstead Garden Suburb, 1991. (© Nigel Sutton)
Fielding calls from the press on an early portable phone in my beloved home at Foy, Herefordshire. (© Paul Felix/Rex Features)
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