Mandy and Gaddafi lord it up at the manor

What are we to make of Lord Mandelson's recent trip to stay with the Rothschilds at Waddesdon Manor?

What are we to make of Lord Mandelson's recent trip to stay with the Rothschilds at Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire? It was a shooting weekend, although neither the First Secretary of State, nor Cherie Blair, another guest, actually picked up a gun.

According to Charles Moore in The Spectator, the guns were "various young friends of Nat [Rothschild] with double-barrelled or European princely names". The keenest shot among them was Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the Libyan dictator, and the man who escorted the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Al Megrahi, home to a hero's welcome in Libya in August.

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