Summary

Alastair Campbell sits in the Cabinet, has an overview of government denied to ministers with control over the flow of information.

Alastair Campbell sits in the Cabinet, has an overview of government denied to ministers with control over the flow of information. Here is chronicled his Rabelaisian early years as a busker, porn-merchant and hard-drinking Fleet Street pugilist until a nervous breakdown in mid 1980s led to his conversion to focused political animal.