The Third Man: Life at the Heart of New Labour

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Peter Mandelson. The Third Man: Life at the Heart of New Labour

THE THIRD MAN

PETER MANDELSON

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Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

1 ‘Can You Help Me?’

2. Born into Labour

3. A Brilliant Defeat

4. The Three Musketeers

5. An Impossible Choice

6. Being Peter

7. Being Fired

8. Fighting, Not Quitting

9. Back in the Shadows

10. Trading Places

11. Comeback Kid

12. The End of New Labour?

Epilogue

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

D

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y

Z

Acknowledgements

About the Author

About the Publisher

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Life at the Heart of New Labour

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Gordon also called me separately at times to share his fears that moves were afoot to drive him out. During one call, he said he had heard that the former Blair cabinet heavyweight Charles Clarke was ‘putting pressure’ on David to ‘reveal his hand, be a candidate – saying he must do so or be discounted. They’re getting a letter together to say there must be change. They’re getting signatures for a coup.’ ‘Sounds familiar,’ I teased him, thinking back to previous attempts by Gordon’s own supporters to drive Tony from office. I told him there were no plots for a coup as far as I could tell, and there wouldn’t be as long as he focused on September and the conference, and got everything right.

He agonised, too, about his staff – and they about him. Now that I was in fairly regular contact with Gordon and his aides, I got both sides of the story. Gordon felt alone. He felt he needed to do too much – and very often, all – of the policy-making himself. He said, surprisingly, that was partly why it had occurred to him to bring me back into the mix, and that he had even toyed with contacting me much earlier, in May 2007, the month before he moved into Number 10, but had concluded that it would not have worked. Now he wished he had done.

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