How David Cameron and Peter Mandelson became 'comeback kids' | How To Win An Election

“The last thing I thought was that I'd be helping him by actually returning to his government.”
As David Cameron makes a shock return to frontline politics in Rishi Sunak's cabinet reshuffle, “three-time comeback kid” Peter Mandelson remembers how he was pulled back into government by Gordon Brown.
Daniel Finkelstein explains how Rishi Sunak kept Cameron's appointment under wraps, and Polly Mackenzie reveals how the Number 10 whiteboard worked.
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[@HH-bi7yk]

Peter Mandelson, he ia a cold-blooded snake of politics

[@davidbates3057]

It's almost like we're operate under an Oligarchy rather than a Democracy. Oh wait... WE DO!

[@dcasteaux9181]

Shhhh! Billy and Klaus might hear you!

[@fredforsythe8310]

The two in question are two of the most corrosive snakes in politics.

[@barryhill1044]

I think One of them was seen playing Golf with Tony ! 🤡..

[@cycillak4918]

"For my next trick i will raise Thatcher from the grave!"

[@garrieleepeck8753]

😂😂

[@paulmorris5166]

Criminals returning to the scene of their greatest crimes.

[@adude9882]

Frankly the return of King Arthur won't help the Tories right now.

[@brianevans2819]

Talk about scrape the barrel, how desperate we are to having descent MP’s.

[@jtfc7286]

They actually are though - just think about how many different cabinet ministers we’ve had over the past 3/4 years. The first lot were bad enough, and it’s obviously just got worse !!

[@marialanchester8180]

And we don’t vote for any of them

[@bm2g]

another one of Epsteins pals

[@freeenergynow]

It’ll be Bleedin’ Blair next!

[@educational1651]

There would be riots

[@Isochest]

Bliar will be in the background steering the UK to disaster

[@ahmd-mi9964]

To call these vampires "kids" is like Calling Jimmy Saville a toddler if anyone remembers what these people were about.

[@weareallbeingwatched4602]

Cameron is from the Caribbean. The right sort of place for Maxwell to topple over the handrail / get waterboarded in the bilge by Tony "the pill" Salento from the MK ULTRA wing of Skynet Enterprises. We are talking Monsanto+Bayer+Siemens.

[@kitsouk1]

The torys could clone Thatcher and it would not help them win an election, they are toast!

[@Willywin]

Yeah, but that mean four or five years of ludicrous Champaign socialist Government... Dont know which is worst.

[@rujon288]

sadly we have seen before how easily the Tory voters fall for these 'tactics'

[@larsfillmore4765]

They are

[@andywrollo2915]

She was a pile of dog doo anyway

[@Willywin]

I like toast - not so fong of Fois Gras like the Champaign Socialist virtue signallers who are really Lib Dems but tooo ashamed to say so.

[@MagicE13]

How David Cameron and Peter Mandelson come on the back of kids. There fixed your Title.

[@josephhoward3558]

It's getting worse than those rock and roll weekends in Hemsby where they only have one original member in the band. Totally sad.

[@gullygullible9774]

Oh the irony of mentioning "kids" in headline 1 Mandelson loved "Jeffery Epstien" 2 Camerons "two child only policy" left 1.5 Million children in poverty 😢

[@woolybag1884]

You can't make this s**t up 😂

[@lauraalleguen6685]

Yep and they say criminals don't come back to the scene of t crimes...

[@ECECECECEC]

This appears to be linked to India and kickbacks for infosys, I’m sure dodgy Dave will get his cut.

[@Hardrada88]

Years ago I got a dose of malaria when in SA. That also comes back now and then..just as annoying at that smug lunatic. Keep your MPs, I'd rather have the sweats

[@twisteddancer7773]

Quality letter from Braverman to Sunak Braverman is 100% correct again

[@karstenjackson-lange5516]

Now they are taking the pi-- out of the British people

[@jjwatcher]

It was a masterstroke by Suella, revenge is a dish best served cold, and the knife went deep, and didn't she twist it, sweet.

[@WiseOne93]

She deserved sacking for causing hate spread.

[@3879keith]

how exactly does bringing back David (dont mention the Pig) Cameron and the (Black Count) Peter Meddlesome improve the Tory Partys image

[@grahamstephenson9393]

So Sunak cant tie his shoelaces and he wants his, mummy or daddy to help him. Not ideal parents,but what an admission of utter failure.

[@GMT439]

A pantomime script for Christmas. All by Design. He has 'FALL GUY' written all over him.

[@johnosullivan2197]

Peter Mandelson was with George Osbourne on Russian oligarch Oleg Derepaska’s super Yacht ! Apparently the deal was to try and lower the EU’s Aluminium import tariffs ! Hugely beneficial to OLEG

[@colinfryett8174]

Peter Mandleson same bloke who was mates with Epstien 😅

[@brandnew1304]

And the queen was mates with jimmy

[@ewoodrailway]

Pigs in blankets

[@phildavies6020]

Both are financially dodgy, politically dodgy and totally self-serving individuals. They exist, just like many of those involved in Government, just their for their own enrichment.

[@veronicaashade1089]

The old broom knows the corners best that's why they are back

[@garrieleepeck8753]

Lol, no. what's he doing? This government has lost the plot

[@dancing_reaper2046]

And then Boris comes 😂

[@dazzler5934]

Another unelected puppet

[@nifralo2752]

The one on the blue jacket sounds like Johnathan Ross

[@gwauk205]

Yaaay. We are “lead” by parasites!

[@royphillips7435]

To make a comeback surely you`d have had to have been somewhere beforehand ! This doesn`t make any logical sense ....

[@BK-uf6qr]

The left is to left and the middle ground has become “far right”

[@BULLEAD]

Quick, get onto the British tax paying cash cow gravy train, before we get booted out of office for a very long time.

[@forsdykemontague1017]

An act of desperation then and a sign of desperation now.

[@johncollins3391]

Groundhog day all over again.

[@Tviktor3]

again he want to rob some oney and leave

[@mini_bakers]

‘Comeback kids’ more like dusted off sloppy broken seconds

[@glenmarson924]

NOW THE DRAMA COMMENCES

[@chris-vn6sw]

You tell em sweet lips ! 🤣

[@nickjones9867]

One can't help but wonder if brown could have won if Mandelson had stayed out of politics

[@user-wl4cl1ph3b]

Mandy quaffing Champaign on a Russian Oligarch's Yacht & Cameron was or still is a Beijing paid agent ?

[@greatscott369]

They're recycling them now

[@bazbuncher6948]

what a couple of first class W*****s

[@rafalp8463]

No honour !!!!!

[@jeannieadams5155]

Scraping the bottom down f he Scraping the bottom of the barrel ,the very bottom both-with him and Cameron !

[@kirstydouglas3036]

Came here to read the comments on mandelson, and wasn't disappointed..... Dark character....

[@Chris-vx6rc]

Wonder what Maggie would do if she see how spineless the tories have become and to be fair you can’t tell them from labour thought a good leader leads not have a popularity competition to see who can be the most fluffy and why has snake mandleson popped his head up hope labour don’t turn to him cause we’re not brain dead just yet

[@iamwinatron9323]

How can Epsteins mate just be allowed back in the public eye?

[@vincenzegreisingel2429]

It’s disgusting. Mandelson is pure evil. Vile.

[@lw1zfog]

you literally answered your own question there 😂

[@Heygoodlooking-lk9kg]

Out of the frying pan,,,,,

[@Vanadeo]

What comedy series is this again?

[@fallonfoxaintgotnobox]

"this must be suppressed"

[@dennisgould7804]

We had Mandelson has our MP in hartlepool, and he was fu##ing useless.

[@SmellingTheGrass]

Its just one big game to these people sickening

[@colinevans39]

No no no

[@siatelecomsltdLondon]

MANDY!😊😊

[@48Trebor]

Recycle the contents of the swamp

[@indefatigable8193]

Still waiting for Lord Mandelsons tell all love story about him, Tony and Gordo’s love triangle

[@JustB3NJI]

Who partied with Epstien again? He has made no comeback, we are just putting up with him.

[@mrp8811]

so Peter does not have a PA. lol

[@tonyclachers5468]

Mandelson is easily one of them most odious slippery person to have anything to do with our political system.I wouldn’t believe anything he said while his lips were moving. How has he slithered back in?

[@MrBoliao98]

I don't think its a slithering in or not. Much like Cameron, he entered government when it was collapsing and ready to lose the next election. He was just there to be stable and not resign and for the UK to hold onto some small sliver of respectability.

[@Fitlad75]

What a joke, juat when you thought it couldn't get any worse! cameron is as popular as Sunak. Which means no one is voting for them #reformparty_uk

[@terencejones1927]

No shock but a salvage plan by sunak

[@Cloppa2000]

Cameron was a clown last time. Is he going to wear a different clown suit to the party this time? I thought Sunak had a little bit of common sense but it seems not!

[@witlesswonderthe2nd883]

Call me Dave the pig fiddler makes a comeback

[@dcasteaux9181]

Haha. By parachuting in a few old school ‘Conservatives’ Rishi thinks he can now reclaim the Conservative voters who are deserting the party by the bus load.

[@mikeham639]

Jobs for the boys.

[@johnwilkes681]

Spock and the pair of Klingons .

[@barryhill1044]

And with the ‘’come back kids’’ back in the saddle, The probably demise of the Tories, I think there’s going to be a glut of ‘saddles’ up for grabs next year ! Just my opinion,

[@consultant2678]

Next Keir Starmer will be bringing back Tony Blair !

[@lorny4u]

#ScottishNotBritish #IndependenceisNormal 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@derf9465]

How would you fund yourselves? You couldnt join nato. Didn't you have a vote on this?

[@remoanersrknts6736]

The majority still want to remain in the Union .. Fact!

[@MATRIX....]

💤

[@abdulmajidyusuf5652]

I think we have Indian we need cowboys

[@mikeymorgan]

I don't think anyone legitimately wants Labour and Starmer in Number 10. We just are done with the Tories and their false promises. They will win, but if they steer the country too left at the end of their term there will be a huge right wing backlash like never before.

[@salmamohamed4319]

Britain is not a serious country 😂

[@stephennoble]

Not for long 😂

[@marcoidini1964]

More of the same

[@user-bt3xf2rl5w]

Free 🇵🇸🇵🇸

[@lrwd123]

Reddiculas blind leading the blind

[@bizarroworld3902]

mediocre promotes mediocre.

[@GarryShepherdDreamGazePostPunk]

Failures return

[@markbebber2284]

Why are you giving the microphone to a personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein

[@peterstead7510]

you should not say nasty things about our future unelected prime minister like it or not

[@LeeKirkman88]

I cannot stand Mandleson i detest the guy.

[@roseannallan4944]

Suella for pm

[@slbe9721]

No surprise at all there, soon Blair.

[@davidnelson7149]

Yeah, and look what happened to Labour after his comeback! They got beaten like a rented mule. What's the difference between Mengele, oops, I mean Mandelson and Camermoron? One of them is a pufter.

[@niceguy235uk1]

Fantastic news. This should now get the tories back on track and look forward to voting for them next year as Labour are an empty vessel with a skanky foghorn.

[@jamescooper8856]

I agree Stamer just flip flops.

[@Nathan-bd6cq]

I always think to myself “surely they can’t still find people who’ll buy their drivel” and yet I’m surprised again and again

[@roseannallan4944]

Both are dodo s

[@richardwhittington6401]

mandy never was a minister just an interfering old queen!

[@andywrollo2915]

Comeback cnuts