Back in May 2017 Richard Osley wrote in the Camden New Journal about Georgia Gould's election to the leadership of Camden Council and the congratulations of a leading New Labour figure:
Lord Mandelson was among well-wishers sending messages to Georgia Gould as she was confirmed as the next leader of Camden Council on Tuesday night. Councillor Gould stood uncontested for the role at the annual general meeting of the ruling Labour group.
Her “coronation” followed Sarah Hayward’s shock decision to step down as leader last month. Insiders said the lack of challengers to Cllr Gould – daughter of the late Lord Gould, Tony Blair’s pollster, and publishing powerhouse Baroness Gail Rebuck – meant she has the strongest command on the local Labour group any leader has had in years.
Lord Mandelson, who lives near Regent’s Park, said in a message to the 30-year-old: “Well done, Georgia, so proud of you as your Dad would be. You’ll be tremendous for Camden – my borough – and for the party.” Family friends Alastair Campbell, Mr Blair’s former press chief, and Fiona Millar have also wished her well in recent weeks, predicting she will excel as leader.
Seven years later in August 2024 Lord Mandelson wrote to Ms Gould, now MP for Queens Park and Maida Vale and at the time parliamentary secretary to the Cabinet Office, to solicit her assistance in his bid to become Chancellor of Oxford University. The inner workings of the New Labour 'old boys and girls' network is revealed in the Mandelson Papers published today LINK:
It didn't work out for Peter Mandelson as he was beaten by Tory William Hague, probably a good thing in retrospect because in September 2025 he was stripped of all honours awarded to him during his chancellorship of Manchester Metropolitan University (2016 to 2024). He moved on to campaign for the Oxford University at the end of his tenure in that post.
Manchester's action followed the revelations about Mandelson's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
Georgia Gould on Good Morning Britain February 2026
In February of this year Richard Osley returned to the subject in the Camden New Journal reporting on Gould's TV round under the headline 'Former council leader ‘shocked’ at family friend Mandelson’s conduct.'
While appearing on Sophy Ridge’s politics show on Sky on Sunday, Ms Gould was asked whether the public had lost faith in the system because friends, relatives and spouses were often connected in power circles.
“We are harder on random people than we are on friends and family,” Ms Ridge suggested, to which Ms Gould replied that the new intake of Labour MPs at the 2024 general election had been “people from all walks of life”.
She added: “I’m really clear on my values and my integrity. I would uphold that regardless of the individual – if I knew them or not.”
12 comments:
What a stench
Is it unkind to comment - looking at the flurry of emails to support Mandelson's bid to become Chancellor - no wonder she hasn't got much time to deal with her residents?
Gould says "I’m really clear on my values and my integrity" - we say, she hasn't got any.
I arrived in the UK in early 2009, at a time when ordinary communities and young people were reeling from the devastating fallout of the global financial crisis. I faced an incredibly hostile job market due to the lasting consequences of that economic crash.
While ordinary people were picking up the pieces of a broken financial system, we now know that behind closed doors, Peter Mandelson was sharing highly confidential government information with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
We now know in more recent years that Georgia Gould, who has known Peter Mandelson all her life, was engaging in comfortable, back-scratching dialogue with Mandelson, offering her support for his Oxford University Chancellorship campaign while lightheartedly asking him for guidance on how to organise the Cabinet Office.
Gould has since expressed that she was "profoundly shocked and devastated" by Mandelson’s conduct, invoking her family’s New Labour legacy to condemn his actions. But this damage control misses the wider, systemic issue.
This isn't just about individual email or WhatsApp exchange; it is about how our political system functions. For decades, people like Peter Mandelson and Georgia Gould have traded social status and influence, whilst remaining completely insulated from the economic hardships they inflict on everyone else.
I stood for political office in Brent because I believe that public service belongs to the community, not to self-serving power circles. Care for our natural environment, local livelihoods, and human health must drive our ambitions and dictate our choices. We cannot allow this to be overridden by a system built on corporate and political entitlement. It is time to dismantle these networks and return power to its roots, to the people who keep our communities adrift.
"Political Entitlement"? - like ordinary people contributing by paying their share of Council Tax - but people like Green Leader Zac Polanski pleading ignorance and NOT paying any Council Tax at all?
Perhaps the Greens should lead by example and sack their Leader for failing to pay his share of tax due when he attacks others for not paying enough.
Tax avoiders - and there is no excuse for someone who sits on a body paid for from our Council Tax not to pay - should not be Leading a Political Party.
Finally, the chickens have come home to roost for self-serving and entitled Labour-rite Gould. She’s my MP. Emailed her months ago to establish her position on Gaza. Months on still waiting for a response. Yet she came knocking on my door when she wanted my vote for her failing Labour councillors. What cheek!
Green Party statement May 12th: Until relatively recently, Zack was living on a houseboat, which came with its own unique practical circumstances and considerations. He has immediately taken steps to pay any council tax he may be found to owe. Zack apologises sincerely for the unintentional mistake.
Well said Councillor
Georgia needs to wake-up to the enormous inequalities and segregations being developer colonial/ new feudal reform social policies grown within her own constituency. MIND THE GAPS, MIND THE ZONES inside Queens Park and Maida Vale constituency!
Well said anonymous!
Please get in touch with me if there’s anything I can help with on the Brent end of the constituency.
Queens Park & Maida Vale will surely fall to the Greens at the next GE, along with the two Brent constituencies. It is also likely that the Harrow and Brent GLA seat will fall too, but will it be to the Greens or the Tories? Good bye Mr infective £60k a year Krupesh Hirani, you won't be missed.
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