Call by call, how a career spiralled into crisis 28 June Disputed phone call between Peter Mandelson and Immigration Minister Mike O'Brien. O'Brien says Mandelson wanted to know how Srichand Hinduja's passport application would be viewed. O'Brien scribbles notes on a yellow Post-It. Mandelson claims he cannot remember the call. 16 January Jack Straw phones Mandelson to discuss Norman Baker's parliamentary question.
Straw insists the answer to the question has to be as accurate and complete as possible.
As a result Campbell gives an inaccurate briefing to journalists. The fateful meeting in Downing Street with Blair, Campbell and Cabinet Secretary Sir Richard Wilson. Blair insists Mandelson must go.