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Joined at the hip?

Barely 24 hours after joining the government Mandelson was last night embroiled in his first row after being forced to deny claims he had ‘dripped pure poison’ about Brown in a private conversation with a senior Conservative. Weeks before rejoining the government he is said to have complained that Brown had left Labour vulnerable to the charge of creating a ‘culture of debt’.

The new Business Secretary insisted the allegations were 'baseless fiction' and Tory propaganda. However the reports will worry Labour MPs planning to raise concerns about Mandelson’s appointment when the Commons returns this week. In his interview Mandelson insisted his problems with the Brown camp were in the past. He said: ‘What’s important is what things are like now, and will be in the future. Certainly from here on in we’re joined at the hip.’

- Mandelson: ‘I’m joined at the hip with PM’, The Observer, October 5, 2008.

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