Diaries Volume Two: Power and the People (The Alastair Campbell Diaries Book 2)

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Learn more about Amazon Prime. The second volume of Campbell's riveting diaries, rejoining New Labor as they come into power. Power and the People i s the second of four volumes, and covers the first two years of New Labor government, beginning with their victory at the polls in Volume Two details the initial challenges faced by Labor as they come to power and settle into running the country. It covers many of the memorable events of the period: Read more Read less.

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What about his wife, Fiona Millar? Alas, they are always rowing she takes the side of Cherie in the Anji Wars , though it's hard to escape the feeling that his putative honesty about these arguments is only part of a strategy to encourage us to believe everything else. The book is surprisingly weak on Northern Ireland; the coming and going, the endless prowling of corridors, is difficult to follow.


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More gripping is the section that covers the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Campbell claims that, in the febrile days before the funeral, Prince William talked about becoming a recluse and for a while refused to countenance the idea of walking behind his mother's coffin on the grounds that it was a stunt cooked up to satisfy the hateful media.

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Unfortunately, William's presence beside his father was considered vital if the Prince of Wales was not to be attacked by the vengeful crowds. Can this be true? They were strange days. But its inclusion here also has a whiff of revenge about it; Charles went on to brief against Blair, who much preferred the Queen. I feel similarly about the inclusion of an entry debating whether or not Peter Mandelson should come out Campbell claims that, following the Geoffrey Robinson loan scandal, he seriously considered doing so.

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Mandelson has never talked about his sexuality. How is this stuff not just another tatty invasion of his privacy of the kind Campbell purports to despise? Why publish these mammoth volumes at all? At the Hutton inquiry, Campbell said of his diary: Forgive me if I find this line confusing.

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The current shadow cabinet is still crammed with people associated with New Labour. Ed Miliband was once one of Brown's closest confidants. So while it's obviously nice that Campbell is now admitting that all the things he used to deny so furiously — namely, the dysfunction at the heart of the government — were in fact true, thus confirming to voters and journalists alike that we were neither barmy nor evil, nothing he says is exactly helpful going into the future.

For my part, I'm less likely than ever to believe the things emanating from a Labour leader's office. It's not even as though Campbell offers much by way of insight or analysis.


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