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The Spectator performs a rapid u-turn on Mandelson

The magazine says 'there's no way back' for the disgraced peer, just days after splashing his views across its own cover

Rats in a Sack

Former US ambassador Peter Mandelson. Photo: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing via Getty Images

As revelations about Peter Mandelson continued to emerge from the cesspit of the Epstein files, the Spectator was definitive: “There’s no way back for Mandelson” wrote Alexander Larman on the right wing magazine’s website on February 2. What a difference a week makes! For it was only days earlier that the Spectator was very much facilitating a way back for the disgraced Lord.

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Mandelson’s views on Reform were splashed across its website and the top of the magazine’s cover, despite a slew of Epstein-related accusations already having stained his reputation and costing him his job as US ambassador.

Given that the Speccie has form for rehabilitating the most odious of characters – even the likes of Taki was welcomed back at Christmas, despite his conviction for attempted rape – perhaps Mandelson shouldn’t lose hope entirely…

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