I don’t think that is where most aspiring young politicos wish to end up. As many people know where they were when Diana died, I know where I was when Peter Mandelson resigned. The second occasion was when Mandelson had to resign over allegations about procuring a passport for a member of the Hinduja family. Then the taxi driver said that Mandelson had resigned. This left the field open for the media to report, unchallenged, the organisers’ claims, which are almost always preposterously high.