POWER & RESPONSIBILITY is the third volume of Alastair Campbells unique daily account of life at the centre of the Blair government. It begins amid conflict in Kosovo & ends on September 11 2001 a day which immediately wrote itself into the history books changing the course of both the Bush presidency & the Blair premiership. In this volume we see that New Labours honeymoon is well & truly over. In addition to detailing the continuing tensions at the top here we find graphic accounts of a variety of domestic crises: foot-&-mouth disease & protests over fuel prices which almost brought Britain to a halt. Volume Three
Includes:: Peter Mandelsons second resignation the agonies of the Millennium Dome & the most unexpected slow-handclapping in memory when the Womens Institute turned against Tony Blair. Yet despite all the problems
- not least the most accident-prone manifesto launch in history complete with deputy prime minister John Prescott punching a voter
- Labour won a second successive landslide election victory. That triumph is intimately recorded here alongside the high points of this period such as devolution to Northern Ireland & the fall of Milosevic.