Alastair Campbell

With Alastair Campbell's career as the Prime Minster's press spokesman comingo a close amid the huge controversy of the Hutton Inquiry, the debate overeapons of Mass Destruction and the waging of the war in Iraq, this biographyas been completely revised and rewritten with a substantial section of newaterial to bring the story of Alastair Campbell right up to date as of thend of 2003.;This book is about one of the most powerful unelected figures inritish politics, whose combative approach to his job in 2003 hasrecipitated the most serious row in years between the government and the BBC,ccasioned the extraordinary spectacle of an incandescent Campbell walkingnto Channel 4 News to deliver a live diatribe to Jon Snow, and who, if hisany critics are to be believed, was involved, unprecedentedly, at theighest level in the presentation of the intelligence dossier on Weapons ofass Destruction that made the government's case for war. This portrait ofony Blair's right-hand man who has himself become the media story, isritten by one of Britain's best political journalists.