Transcript of an interview with Peter Mandelson, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, by David Frost for BBC Breakfast with Frost on 10 September 2000. On 9 September 1999 the Patten Report was published containing 175 recommendations for the reform of policing in Northern Ireland including the renaming of the existing police force, the removal of most visible symbols of British identity and an equally proportionate recruitment policy for Catholics and Protestants. In this interview Mandelson discusses the difficulties of implementing these proposals, the importance of the prisoner release programme and the current impasse over IRA decommissioning. Breakfast with Frost was a weekly BBC current affairs programme.
Date of Release/Broadcast: 10 September 2000
Name of First Interviewee: Peter Mandelson
Role at time of Interview: Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
Interviewer: David Frost
Purpose: News
Media: Transcript
Copyright: © BBC Breakfast with Frost
Link: Read the transcript
Programme/Book/Article: BBC Breakfast with Frost
Time Period covered: 2000
Key Individuals: Peter Mandelson, Johnny Adair, Cyril Ramaphosa, Martti Ahtisaari, Julia Langdon, Mo Mowlam
Key Words: RUC, flag, justice, prisoner, normalisation, Belfast Agreement, Good Friday Agreement, Sentence Review Commission, PSNI, decommisioning, IICD, Provisional IRA