Mandelson gets offer to join advertising agency
June 5: Peter Mandelson is considering an offer to join a new advertising agency set up by two executives he helped appoint to run Labour's multi-million pound ad campaign.
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Mandelson: 'I do not desire a return to government'
Response to publication of Hammond Inquiry report.
No evidence of improper dealings
In the muddle, statements were made on the basis of evidence which turned out to be incomplete.
Mandelson muddle fuels conspiracy theories
Jack Straw's involvement suggests that he may be Mandelson's chief rival as the next foreign secretary, says Michael White.
How fate was sealed by Straw's intervention
10 March: Blair emerges as ruthless, the home secretary as sharp, while cabinet secretary is seen as official who overstepped mark.
Masters of the political black arts go to war
10 March: A betrayed friendship is at the heart of the feud dividing Labour's best strategists.
Sultan v Svengali
10 March: How the storm blew up.
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Questions left unanswered by the Hammond Inquiry
Mr Mandelson quoted from the Hammond report several times in his doorstep statement in Hartlepool this morning. Was his interpretation selective?
Vaz 'intervened in City sex bias case'
20 March: A new row broke out last night over the judgment of Keith Vaz after it was revealed that he had used his position as a government minister to intervene on behalf of a 46-year-old Asian woman taking a sex discrimination case against a firm of City lawyers.
Local party braced for row
16 March: A Labour party meeting in Keith Vaz's Leicester East constituency tonight could see a showdown between members over their embattled MP.
Minister and the incomplete investigation
16 March: The Foreign Office minister, Keith Vaz, was earlier this week criticised by the Commons standards committee for failing to cooperate fully with an inquiry which largely cleared him of not disclosing business interests.
Letters add to pressure on Vaz
16 March: The reputation of the foreign office minister, Keith Vaz, is expected to suffer a new blow today with the detailed publication of 20 letters showing how the embattled minister prevaricated and refused to answer questions about his affairs.
Vaz in the clear over Hinduja passports
10 March: No evidence exists of any "improper relationship" between the Europe minister Keith Vaz and the multi-millionaire Hinduja brothers, the Hammond Inquiry announced yesterday.
Prime minister announces publication of Hammond report
Braced for a little local difficulty
10 March: From the splendour of an official residence across the Irish Sea and all the trappings of high office, Peter Mandelson yesterday struck out on a more lowly political course, maintaining that his future now lay with the parochial and not the national.
Report gives Mandelson no way back
9 March: Peter Mandelson has lost the battle to win his way back into the government despite today's Home Office report into the Hinduja passport affair, which will acquit him of lying to Downing Street about his role.
Hindujas distribute DVD souvenir of Blairs' visit
Video: It is the Christmas present that Tony Blair, Peter Mandelson and Keith Vaz must wish the Hindujas had never sent to hundreds, perhaps thousands, of friends, acquaintances and influential figures.
Watch Tony Blair meet the Hinduja brothers
The Hinduja passport affair
The Hammond inquiry has exonerated Mandelson, but will do little to damp down the controversy over the Hinduja brothers' passport applications. Derek Brown and Julian Glover explain.
New Labour passports scandal
How far will the passports scandal reverbrate? Julian Glover explains.
I'm Mandy, fire me
25 January: Why did Peter Mandelson risk everything by giving a deceptive answer to a reporter's question? Simple, says his former aide Benjamin Wegg-Prosser: he's a born gambler.
24 January: Mandelson's resignation statement
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Michael White: 'A quite extraordinary day here at Westminster'
24 January: Guardian political editor gives his reaction from Westminster (2mins 30).
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'Mandelson not the man for the job'
24 January: Residents of Hartlepool, Peter Mandelson's constituency, talk to Martin Wainwright about the resignation. (3mins 55)
The life of a minister
Photo gallery: Peter Mandelson's story in pictures.
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Steve Bell on Labour's reaction to Mandelson's resignation
I never liked that Mandy
16 February, Bel Littlejohn: Good riddance, says I. I never trusted Peter Mandelson, never fell for his pernicious brand of spin, and when I heard that he had finally been given his comeuppance I literally whooped and punched the air with sheer, unadulterated joy.
What's up, doc?
15 February, comment: Dr Oliver James is free to make outrageous comments on Peter Mandelson. But he should be gagged.
The decline and fall of the august cabinet secretary
13 February, Hugo Young: A once revered mandarin has been brought very low indeed.
Mandelson helped Dome backer's bid for passport
21 January: Peter Mandelson helped a controversial Indian tycoon, who is currently facing corruption charges, to obtain British citizenship after he and his brother agreed to donate £1 million to bail out the Millennium Dome.
Observer celebrates scoop
Media Guardian, 24 January: The Observer journalist who broke the Mandelson story said he was 'sad that such a talented and clever man was forced to lie' to the press and the government.
'I was always very sensitive to proprieties'
Who said what in the 'passport for favours' row.
The hands-on Hindujas
As the passports for favours row threatens to obliterate the future of Peter Mandelson, Derek Brown looks back on his own brush with the case's key players
Hindujas get nasty surprise in court
New Delhi dispatch: How a 24-hour visit to Delhi for Britain's wealthiest Asian family turned into a lengthy grilling. Luke Harding reports.
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Mandelson, the minister and the secret £373,000 loan
22 December 1998: Cabinet minister Peter Mandelson is involved in a secret financial arrangement with his beleaguered government colleague Geoffrey Robinson concerning a loan of £373,000 to buy his London home, a Guardian investigation can reveal.
Mandelson: undone by a story that could not be spun
24 December 1998: Peter Mandelson's resignation yesterday - and the Guardian scoop barely 24 hours earlier that triggered it - brought to an end a week of frenetic behind-the-scenes manoeuvring.
Hinduja and the dome
Observer journalist Nick Cohen, writing in the New Statesman, warned of New Labour's links with Srichand Hinduja back in 1999. Hinduja was last week bailed on corruption charges by an Indian court.
The other face of Hinduja
Indian portal Rediff.com interviewed Srichand Hinduja about his spiritual motivation in 1999.
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Hammond report out tomorrow
Downing Street confirmed today the inquiry into the Hinduja cash for passports affair will be published tomorrow morning.
