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Mandelson fallout continues: 8 in the morning – July 13th

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8amBy Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk

* Peter Mandelson reveals that Gordon Brown would have quit within a year if Labour won power.

* Gary Younge says that New Labour era memoirs are the history of “little men”.

* Ministers decribed the party election campaign as “futile” and “finished” in the run up to poilling day.

* Over at the Telegraph, James Kirkup says that Mandelson is “embarrassing himself”.

* Meanwhile Tony Blair’s memoirs have undergone a title change, and now sound “less messianic”.

* Meanwhile, five years on from Live 8, Tony Blair tells the Sun that he’s proud of the help Britain has given Africa.

* In the WSJ, Iain Martin asks if the country would vote for Ed Balls should he be elected Labour leader.

* And former OBR head Sir Alan Budd says that the organisation needs to move out of the treasury.

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