Labour MP Mandelson walks to board train from London after being named as Britain's next European Union Commissioner. Britain's Labour MP Peter Mandelson walks along the platform before catching a train at King's Cross Station in London, July 23, 2004. Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair named his long-time ally and former cabinet minister Mandelson as the country's next European Union Commissioner on Friday in a move widely seen as reflecting his renewed confidence after surviving the worst of Iraq. REUTERS/Toby Melville