[Was that success down to Price's boss, Alastair Campbell? The way he puts it, it must have been.] He was funny, warm, charming, immensely intelligent, phenomenally hard-working. His stamina was awesome to behold, ... To a certain extent he carried the rest of us along in his wake. |
The book was written at the time and as such I think gives a fair and balanced account of the role that I played, |
When I was working there, there was a sort of initiative-itis that we all caught, when you had to be seen to be doing something the whole time, ... It was generally to the detriment of good policy if we in the press office were putting pressure on people to come up with a solution to something or to allow us to announce something when they didn't quite feel that it wasn't quite ready. |