“The last thing I thought was that I'd be helping him by actually returning to his government.”

As David Cameron makes a shock return to frontline politics in Rishi Sunak's cabinet reshuffle, “three-time comeback kid” Peter Mandelson remembers how he was pulled back into government by Gordon Brown.

Daniel Finkelstein explains how Rishi Sunak kept Cameron's appointment under wraps, and Polly Mackenzie reveals how the Number 10 whiteboard worked.

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