The Spin Doctor's Diary: Inside Number 10 with New Labour

By Lance Price

Book Overview

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 beingsambitious, vain, obsessed with image and petty rivalriesbut also industrious, determined to succeed and all too aware of the price of failure."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0340898224
• ISBN13: 9780340898222
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Spick & Spun

If you want to understand Blairs Britain read this book. I thought this was a great account. Homophobes might try to play it down but it's refreshingly human account of someone who almost by accident finds himself in No 10. Most books don't grab you from the start but from the wry account of getting the job from Tony Blair onwards this is a gay Alan Clark. Tony Blair and the Sauna and the Prime Minister asking about gay sex are great, really human. I even ended up feeling sorry for Peter Mandleson. A real slice of first hand social history. great!

Alan Clark of New Labour

Well this explains everything - why they got it wrong whilst trying to be right. The Bridget Jones of Downing Street. Messy but human, frustrating and fascinating by turns. Politicians made real not cardboard cut outs. It was serialised in the Daily Mail but the weird thing is both their readers, those of the Guardian or the Telegraph will all get angry reading it!