Last week, the Daily Mirror labelled Peter Mandelson “the James Bond of British politics” on the grounds that he has “a licence to kill off the Tories in the general election”. But surely Lord Mandy is rather more reminiscent of another Ian Fleming character: Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the sinister mastermind behind the buccaneering free enterprise organisation SPECTRE – the Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion – with tentacles reaching out in all directions . He’d look good with a white cat on his lap, too.
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