In 2014, Lord Mandelson revealed in the Spectator he was becoming a part-time country mouse. ‘I’m a step nearer to realising my dream of a farming life,’ he wrote. ‘I am going to rent a modest dwelling in deepest Wiltshire next door to the herdsman and his family. My lambing and milking skills will soon be tested. Baa and moo.’ The house was in fact a little grander than Mandy implied. It was a four-bedroom detached house in an acre of land near Pewsey, owned by his mate, Lord (Nat) Rothschild, and cost a reported £4,000 a month. The house is within walking distance, by coincidence, of the charming nest of a genuine country mouse, my pal Giles Wood. Now, according to the Daily Telegraph, Mandy has been forced to give up this dream as a result of a recent drop in income. But, for Mandy, this will be one...
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