Alastair Campbell told the crowd: ‘Unite behind Gordon to win’. But can they?

Fraser Nelson says that the departure of Tony Blair and the arrival of Gordon Brown will mark a clear-out of personnel and a marked change in style. The risk is that the new Prime Minister becomes a force for division and the object of derision

From magazine issue: 12 May 2007

issue 12 May 2007

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Alastair Campbell told the crowd: ‘Unite behind Gordon to win’. But can they?
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When John Reid was asked if he’d stand for Labour party leader, he would always give the same sort of reply. ‘I have a life outside politics,’ he told me at the last Labour conference. ‘I play the guitar, I play piano. I have a house in France. I could walk away from all this tomorrow, and my life would not collapse.