Mandelson's birth

[derek]

Where and at what time was Peter Mandelson born?

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Peter Benjamin Mandelson was born at 6.45pm in London on 21 October, 1953. I don't know where exactly he came into this world, but I suspect it was north London, because he was educated at Hendon Senior High.

He later studied at St Catherine's College, Oxford, and then worked at the economics department of the Trades Union Congress; for Lambeth Council; and as the Labour Party's director of communications. He is widely regarded as the man who put Tony Blair in power.

He served in Blair's government as minister without portfolio, then transport and industry secretary before resigning in December 1998. He later became Northern Ireland secretary and resigned in January 2001. Mandelson's grandfather was the Labour cabinet minister Herbert Morrison.