AHC: Lord Mandelson, Prime Minister

As it says on the tin, have Lord Mandelson become the British Prime Minister with a PoD after his October 2008 return to Cabinet.

Bonus points if you can make him either win a majority in 2010 or form a coalition with the Liberal Democrats.
 

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As it says on the tin, have Lord Mandelson become the British Prime Minister with a PoD after his October 2008 return to Cabinet.

Bonus points if you can make him either win a majority in 2010 or form a coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

He returned to cabinet as a Member of the House of Lords; considering that PMs do not come from the Lords these days, it's surely a hard stretch for him to become PM? It would have to be some kind of constitutional crisis for him to take over.
 
He returned to cabinet as a Member of the House of Lords; considering that PMs do not come from the Lords these days, it's surely a hard stretch for him to become PM? It would have to be some kind of constitutional crisis for him to take over.

I agree - it would have to be something that took out most of the cabinet, including Brown and Prescott. Mandelson could then act as temporary PM while the Labour Party sorted out the mess (although realistically Blair would probably be drafted in).
 
I agree - it would have to be something that took out most of the cabinet, including Brown and Prescott. Mandelson could then act as temporary PM while the Labour Party sorted out the mess (although realistically Blair would probably be drafted in).

Blair wasn't a Lord or MP at the time, and a meeting of Cobra needs to be chaired after such an event - step forward one Mandy Esq.
 
The best solution would be to have some dissident republicans from Belfast, annoyed at the Good Friday Agreement which Labour helped create, bomb the Labour Party Conference leaving Mandelson the most recognisable Labour name alive
 
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