Topic: Peter Mandelson
Quotes
Low carbon and environmental goods and services are already worth $5.1 trillion to the global economy and in the U.K. employ nearly 900,000 directly and through the supply chain
U.K. boosts switch to low-carbon industry Jul 17, 2009
Our market testing has shown now is not the time to sell a minority stake in Royal Mail
Union plans strike at Royal Mail Jul 02, 2009
We need to develop a clearer and consistent channel for communicating with China, especially on trade and climate change issues
China seeks MES from EU Sep 10, 2009
Perhaps we need not more people looking round more corners, but the same people looking round more corners more thoroughly to avoid the small things detracting from the big things the prime minister is getting right
Language group blasts British official Dec 08, 2009
It's the principle and practice of regulation you have to focus on, not the size of banks
Obama forwards Volcker rule to Congress Mar 03, 2010
Peter Benjamin Mandelson, Baron Mandelson, PC (born 21 October 1953) is a British Labour politician who is the current First Secretary of State, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, President of the Board of Trade and Lord President of the Council. Together with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown he was a key architect in the rebranding of the Labour Party as "New Labour" and its subsequent landslide victory in the 1997 general election. Mandelson served as Member of Parliament for Hartlepool for twelve years (from 1992), a seat he vacated in order to become a European Commissioner (2004–2008).
He twice resigned from Tony Blair's government while holding Cabinet positions. After his second resignation he served as the European Commissioner for Trade for almost four years. He rejoined the government when he was made a life peer by Gordon Brown and took his seat in the House of Lords on 13 October 2008.
Mandelson was born in London in 1953, where his father was the advertising manager at The Jewish Chronicle. On his mother's side, he is the grandson of Herbert Morrison, the London County Council leader and Labour cabinet minister.
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