Party leaders from Tony Blair to Ed Miliband mingle with MPs, trade union barons, and senior media figures. Geoffrey Robinson, who bought the New Statesman in 1996, sold it ten years later. Elected as an MP in 1976, he was overlooked for promotion until Tony Blair took over in 1994. But in 1999, it was revealed Robinson had secretly loaned Cabinet minister Peter Mandelson £373,000 for a house. He took his revenge in his memoir The Unconventional Minister, which angered many in Labour circles.

Source: Daily Mail May 19, 2019 23:15 UTC