You "chumps", Mandy tells The Sun

Much debate on what Britain’s best-loved vaudeville star - Peter Mandelson - made of The Sun’s decision to dump Gordon Brown.

Rumour was that he’d used the c-word at the News International reception when Rebeckah Brooks broke the news to him. Lord Mandelson, tongue firmly in cheek, clarified his reaction to reporters this lunchtime.

“I said to them last night, when Rebekah told me, that they’d been a bunch of chumps,” said a smiling Mandy.

“I think their readers don’t expect to start paying for a Tory fanzine, they expect a proper newspaper that is balanced and objective.”