Chris Mullin

Keeping the lid on

For all of the nine years that he worked, first as official spokesman for Tony Blair and then as Director of Communications for the government, Alastair Campbell was obliged to defend a huge lie: that all was well at the heart of the New Labour project when, manifestly, it was not.

issue 19 June 2010

  • The Alastair Campbell Diaries, Volume I, Prelude to Power, 1994-1997

    Alastair Campbell

    Hutchinson, pp. 784

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