Word: labourers
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...close and unconfined in a north London garden. As Tony Blair's director of communications and strategy, and for years his most trusted adviser, Alastair Campbell stalked the corridors of Westminster, commanding fear and demanding respect. His influence was immense, shaping Blair's political project to reform the Labour Party and ensuring its success. He was eyewitness to crucial decisions in foreign policy and a catalyst in others, treating world leaders with the bruising directness he meted out to his own colleagues. Depicted in the Oscar-winning film The Queen as a boorish bully and in numerous TV and stage...
...British Prime Minister Tony Blair's director of communications and strategy, Alastair Campbell was, for almost ten years, his most trusted adviser and confidant. One of the principal architects of New Labour, the reinvention of the ossified party of the working classes as a modern, centrist party with broad appeal, press chief Campbell was one of the biggest beasts to stalk the corridors of Westminster. His influence was immense, shaping and communicating Blair's efforts to overhaul the country-in attitude, as well as in its economy and public services-much as they had overhauled their party. An eyewitness...
...Labour leader never kept a diary, unintentionally casting Campbell as his acerbic Boswell. Campbell's journals, edited from over two million words to a thick tome of 350,000, reveal their serial encounters with Presidents and Premiers, royals and rock stars, lawmen and faith leaders, press barons and members of the public. It's to that last category, "people outside the Westminster bubble," he tells TIME, that the author is appealing, over the heads of a media both he and his former boss have come to regard as irredeemably hostile...
...self-effacing, Campbell was present at key events of the decade. Royal biographers have mined for new material on Princess Diana for years. Campbell's diaries reveal a trove of meetings she held with Blair when he was opposition leader, and describe the interaction of Buckingham Palace and the Labour Party in the days after her death. Depicted in the Oscar-winning movie, The Queen, as a boorish bully who radiates contempt for the Palace, the author of the diaries instead betrays a respect for its residents. It's reciprocated. A senior official at Buckingham Palace told TIME "Alastair...
...Blair's response to the terror attacks of 9/11 and a detailed narrative of the negotiations leading to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, the foundation of this year's historic settlement in Northern Ireland that saw old enemies enter into government together. There's even a fair bit of Labour's dirty washing: its internal struggles as it moved towards the center, and a leader, glimpsed here behind the scenes, often impressive but sometimes fretful and indecisive...