The number one bestselling memoir of one of New Labour s three founding architects, now with a revealing new chapter updating this paperback edition.

Peter Mandelson is one of the most influential politicians of modern times. The Third Man is his story of a life played out in the backroom and then on the frontline of the Labour Party during its unprecedented three terms in government.

Much of the book is devoted to the defining political relationships of Peter Mandelson s life with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Charting what he terms the soap-opera years of the Labour government, his book continues to ruffle feathers with an updated preface bringing the story up to the tempestuous present."

Documentary following Labour cabinet minister Peter Mandelson in the run up to the May 2010 General Election. Mandelson was influential in the rise of New Labour in the 1990s, acting as the Campaign Director for the 1997 General Election which brought Tony Blair to power on a landslide. A controversial figure, Mandelson twice resigned from the cabinet under Blair when facing accusations of corruption and was described by William Hague as 'the most powerful unelected deputy since Henry VIII appointed Cardinal Wolsey' on his return to cabinet in 2008. This documentary benefits from behind the scenes access and interviews granted by Mandelson to provide an in-depth profile of one of the shrewdest and most influential politicians in modern Britain.