The Burden of Power by Alastair Campbell

Author:Alastair Campbell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2012-06-20T16:00:00+00:00

Tuesday, November 26

Struggling to get a grip on Iraq co-ordination. There was definitely now something of a turf war between the FCO and the CIC operation, driven by John Williams’ [FCO] genuine and loyal belief that Jack was a key communicator. TB had definitely got fire into a better place. Before he left for his education speech in Birmingham, we agreed to take out all the stuff on top-up fees, which in the current atmosphere would just set off a different neuralgia, and the speech didn’t actually need it. I was taking a hands-on interest in story development on fire. We were starting to bank them up, e.g. a report on joint control rooms, as well as some of the specific modernisation issues, e.g. the shift system, second jobs. We got up more modernisation messages through the publication of our evidence to Bain. Anecdotally, we were being told support for the FBU was weakening. JP’s statement was OK but in questions he pointed up that twenty per cent were due to retire, which led to headlines about 10,000 job losses. But we were still in a far better position than before. TB called a couple of times, and said that you couldn’t keep dancing around the jobs issue forever but it was good in a way that JP blurted it out. Then to the FPA [Foreign Press Association] dinner. Clive Anderson [broadcaster and comedian] hosted it extremely well, though Jack’s speech didn’t quite hit the notes. We were shortlisted for press office of the year though thankfully didn’t win. I quite enjoyed the event but I hate these late nights.

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