Peter Mandelson

Peter Benjamin Mandelson, Baron Mandelson PC is a British Labour politician, president of international think tank Policy Network and Chairman of strategic advisory firm Global Counsel. He served as Member of Parliament for Hartlepool from 1992 to 2004, and held a number of Cabinet positions under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He was also the European Commissioner for Trade between 2004 and 2008.

Peter Mandelson was born in Hampstead Garden Suburb, Middlesex onOctober 1953, the son of Mary Joyce and George Norman Mandelson. His fathers family was Jewish, his grandfather had founded the Harrow United Synagogue. His father was the advertising manager of The Jewish Chronicle who was commissioned as an officer in the Royal Dragoons in World War II. On his mothers side Peter is the grandson of Margaret and Herbert Morrison, the London County Council Leader and Labour Cabinet Minister. He attended Garden Suburb Primary School and between 1965 and 1972 Hendon County Grammar School. In 1966 he appeared on stage with the local amateur theatre group, the Hampstead Garden Suburb Dramatic Society as the eponymous lead in The Winslow Boy.

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