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Mandelson is a veteran political operator who helped remodel Britain’s center-left Labour motion within the Nineties because it returned from the political wilderness. He twice resigned beneath a cloud from Blair’s governments — however made a hanging frontline comeback within the dying days of Gordon Brown’s administration.
A fierce critic of Brexit, Mandelson served as European commissioner for commerce for a four-year stint within the 2000s, and at the moment has a seat within the House of Lords, the higher chamber of the British parliament.
The identical official referenced above stated Mandelson had a “confirmed observe document” on enterprise issues and can be essential because the U.Okay. tries to shore up its buying and selling relationship with the U.S. and increase financial development.
There had been dialogue in No. 10 Downing Street about handing the position, at the moment occupied by Karen Pierce, to former Labour Foreign Secretary David Miliband, had Kamala Harris triumphed within the U.S. election as an alternative of Trump.
Another individual with data of the appointment talked Mandelson up as an enormous character in a position to make an affect with Trump.
Crucial points more likely to be in his in-tray embrace making an attempt to shore up U.S. help for Ukraine beneath a Trump administration and making certain the U.Okay. financial system is not hammered by import tariffs threatened by the incoming president-elect.
