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

Price, Lance

ISBN 10: 0340898232 / ISBN 13: 9780340898239

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Spin Doctor's Diary: Inside Number 10 with New Labour
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340898232
• ISBN 13: 9780340898239
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1773609774.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 43950939
• Signed: 3/15/2026 9:22:54 PM
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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Lance Price worked at 10 Downing Street from 1998 to 2000 where he was a deputy to Alastair Campell. He was the Labour Party's Director of Communications from 2000 until the General Election of 2001, when Tony Blair secured his second landslide. He is now a writer, political commentator and broadcaster.