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that I chose to dedicate this volume to him. He more than any of us understood that politics is a team game, and right up to his death was trying to heal some of the wounds that came with the pressures of power. He died proud of the role he had played in helping to get Labour back into power, and in helping TB and his team do the job we did. I publish this full account humble enough to know we didn’t get everything right, but proud of the overall story it tells, and happy to share it.
    Alastair Campbell
    January 2012

Who’s Who
September 2001–August 2003
     
The Cabinet
Tony Blair
Prime Minister (TB)
John Prescott
Deputy Prime Minister and First Secretary of State (JP)
Gordon Brown
Chancellor of the Exchequer (GB)
Jack Straw
Foreign Secretary (JS)
David Blunkett
Home Secretary (DB)
Margaret Beckett
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary (MB)
Charles Clarke
Labour Party Chair 2001–2, Education Secretary from 2002
Estelle Morris
Education Secretary 2001–2
Patricia Hewitt
Trade and Industry Secretary, Minister for Women (Pat H)
Robin Cook
Leader of the House of Commons 2001–3 (RC)
Clare Short
International Development Secretary
Alistair Darling
Work and Pensions Secretary 2001–2, Transport Secretary from 2002 and Scottish Secretary from 2003 (AD)
Stephen Byers
Transport, Local Government and the Regions Secretary (SB)
Alan Milburn
Health Secretary 2001–3 (AM)
Tessa Jowell
Culture, Media and Sport Secretary
Geoff Hoon
Defence Secretary
John Reid
Northern Ireland Secretary to 2002, then Labour Party Chair 2002–3, Leader of the House of Commons 2003, Health Secretary 2003–5
Paul Murphy
Welsh Secretary 2001–2, Northern Ireland Secretary from 2002
Helen Liddell
Scottish Secretary 2001–3
Lord (Gareth) Williams
Leader of the House of Lords 2001–3
Lord (Derry) Irvine
Lord Chancellor 2001–3
Hilary Armstrong
Chief Whip (Commons)
Andrew Smith
Chief Secretary to the Treasury 2001–2, Work and Pensions Secretary from 2002
Lord (Bruce) Grocott
Chief Whip (Lords)
Lord (Peter) Goldsmith
Attorney General
     
Additional Cabinet changes 2002–3
Peter Hain
Welsh Secretary from 2002, Leader of the House of Commons from 2003
Paul Boateng
Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2002
Baroness (Valerie) Amos
International Development Secretary 2003, Leader of the House of Lords from 2003
Hilary Benn
International Development Secretary from 2003
Lord (Charlie) Falconer
Lord Chancellor from 2003
     
10 Downing Street
Andrew Adonis
Head of Policy Unit
Alison Blackshaw
AC’s personal assistant
Cherie Blair
Wife of TB (CB)
David Bradshaw
Special adviser, Strategic Communications Unit
Alastair Campbell
Director of communications and strategy
Magi Cleaver
Press officer, overseas visits
Hilary Coffman
Special adviser, Press Office
Kate Garvey
Events and visits team
David Hanson
Parliamentary private secretary to TB
Jeremy Heywood
Principal private secretary
Robert Hill
Political secretary
Anji Hunter
Director of government relations
Peter Hyman
Strategist and speechwriter
Tanya Joseph
Press officer
Tom Kelly
Prime Minister’s official spokesman (with Godric Smith)
Liz Lloyd
Special adviser, Policy Unit
Sir David Manning
Chief foreign policy adviser
Pat McFadden
Deputy chief of staff
Fiona Millar
AC’s partner, aide to CB (FM)
Sally Morgan
Director of political and government relations
Jonathan Powell
Chief of staff
Terry Rayner
Driver
Catherine Rimmer
Research and Information Unit
Matthew Rycroft
Private secretary, Foreign Affairs
Martin Sheehan
Press officer
Godric Smith
Prime Minister’s official spokesman (with Tom Kelly)
Clare Sumner
Private secretary, Parliamentary Affairs
Sir Andrew Turnbull
Cabinet Secretary from 2002
Simon Virley
Private secretary
Anna Wechsberg
Private secretary
Ben Wilson
Press officer
Sir Richard Wilson
Cabinet Secretary to 2002 (RW)
     
HM Treasury
Ian Austin, Ed Balls,
Spencer Livermore,
Ed Miliband, Sue Nye
Special advisers

Whitehall/Security Services
Admiral Sir Michael Boyce
Chief of the