TONY BLAIR was at the head of an angry Labour reaction against Peter Mandelson last night as the former key strategist’s memoirs threatened to rupture his relationship with the party.
The former prime minister was said by close associates to be “livid” that Lord Mandelson had rushed into print with assertions that Mr Blair both disputes and believes can only help Britain’s ruling Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition.
Prime Minister David Cameron seized on the book, The Third Man, serialised in The Times this week, to taunt Labour about its “shambolic” time in office. Mr Cameron had read reports of the book and said that it was “money well spent”, according to his official spokesman.
Labour figures from all sides of the party expressed fury that Lord Mandelson had committed private conversations to print, such as his reporting that Mr Blair believed Gordon Brown to be “mad, bad and dangerous”, and that his then chancellor was “flawed”.
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