Mandelson lobbied hard for advisory firm after Labour victory, papers show

Emails and WhatsApp messages reveal string of exchanges with ministers when he was president of Global Counsel

Peter Mandelson, as president of his then advisory firm Global Counsel, lobbied hard for ministers to attend his events and to meet his firm's staff in the months following Labour's general election win, newly released documents reveal.

Emails and WhatsApp exchanges show how active the Labour peer was in the wake of the election to work his contacts within government to the potential advantage of both his company and his then campaign to be chancellor of Oxford University.