Me and Peter Mandelson, kind of...

I must be some kind of inverted Zelig or Forrest Gump character, there in the photograph at inauspicous moments in history. After meeting John Smith in a St. Helen's Labour Club a few months before he died, and seeing Tony Blair arrive at the Royal Festival Hall in 1997, last night found myself shaking hands with Gordon Brown and letting Peter Mandelson into the Green Room at Granada. Anyway, read my full account on local news website Inside the M60 here.