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

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.