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- Product code: 25747
- ISBN: 0340898232,
ISBN13: 9780340898239,
300 pages, paperback
Published by Hodder & Stoughton on 2006
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Description of The Spin Doctor's Diary |
"The Spin Doctor's Diary" takes you right inside Number 10, and straight to the heart of New Labour. While Lance Price was Alasdair Campbell's deputy in the Downing Street Press Office at the end of the 1990s, and then Director of Communications at the Labour Party, he kept an informal journal of his experiences. Published in full for the first time, these controversial diaries offer a rare and unfiltered perspective of Tony Blair as Prime Minister and the kind of government he runs. We see ministers, from Blair down, behaving as human beings - ambitious, vain, obsessed with image and petty rivalries - but also industrious, determined to succeed and all too aware of the price of failure. This is New Labour at the height of its power, with a huge majority and a feeble opposition, a government elected with high expectations and yet beset by self-inflicted wounds. "The Spin Doctor's Diary" reveals in detail, for the first time, the overwhelming obsession with spin; the scandals and resignations; the bitter rows - not just between Blair and Gordon Brown, but also over who should be Mayor of London, the Euro, devolution, public spending and much more besides. Lance Price describes what he did and what he saw with refreshing wit and candour. This is politics stripped bare - not always a pretty sight, but an unforgettable one.
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While Lance Price was Alastair Campbell’s deputy in the Downing Street Press Office at the end of the 1990s and then Director of Communications at the Labour Party, he kept an informal journal of his experiences.
Published in full for the first time, these controversial diaries offer a rare and unfiltered perspective of Tony Blair as Prime Minister and the kind of government he runs. We see ministers, from Blair down, behaving as human beings – ambitious, vain, obsessed with image and petty rivalries – but also industrious, determined to succeed and all too aware of the price of failure.
This is New Labour at the height of its power, with a huge majority and a feeble opposition, a government elected with high expectations yet beset by self-inflicted wounds. The Spin Doctor’s Diary reveals in detail for the first time the overwhelming obsession with spin; the scandals and resignations; the bitter rows – not just between Blair and Gordon Brown, but also over who should be Mayor of London, the Euro, devolution, public spending and much more besides.
Lance Price describes what he did and what he saw with refreshing wit and candour. This is politics stripped bare – not always a pretty sight, but an unforgettable one.
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Reviews‘These are gripping diaries, acutely well-observed and written in fine prose. They provide the first insider diary account of Blair’s Number 10. They will be as fascinating to readers today as they will to future
historians.’
Anthony Seldon, author of BLAIR
‘A spin doctor he may have been, but what distinguishes Lance Price from some of his trade is that all who know or have worked with him will believe him, every word. He spun for others but he does not spin his own account. That is what makes his book so sensational.’
Matthew Parris --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
| About Lance Price |
Lance Price worked at 10 Downing Street from 1998 to 2000 where he was a deputy to Alastair Campbell. He was the Labour Party's Director of Communications from 2000 until the General Election of 2001, when Tony Blair secured his second landslide. Before joining Number Ten he was a BBC Political Correspondent for many years. He has now returned to journalism as a writer, political commentator and broadcaster.
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