Eight things we learnt from the latest Mandelson files
Documents contain nuggets about the peer’s appointment as US envoy and the workings of Sir Keir Starmer’s government
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Mandelson files as they happened: Labour peer told government it would ‘never regret’ making him US envoy
Disclosures include emails and WhatsApp messages sent between the disgraced peer and ministers