Rothschild: 'Mandelson doc is warts and all'

Hannah Rothschild has claimed that her upcoming Peter Mandelson documentary is a fair record of the New Labour architect.

Speaking to the Evening Standard, the director of Mandelson: The Real PM? brushed off the suggestion that her brother and father's friendship with the politician had affected her work.

Asked if her familial connection to the ex-first secretary of state had won her the job, Rothschild replied: "You'd have to ask Peter that question but he said he wanted a record of what politics is really like. And that's what I've done - warts and all.”

She added: "Being born into this family creates significant advantages but it's what one does with those privileges that matters.

"The same goes with this film - having landed the big fish I felt a tremendous sense of responsibility to get the story right. No, [not for Mandelson,] for the viewer."

Rothschild said of Mandelson: "He is full of contradictions and is highly fallible, as his political career has shown. But that's why I wanted to make a film about him."

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