After the censored purity of the Campbell diaries, the Blair era memoirs competition finally looks like becoming a race to the bitchy bottom. Jonathan Powell’s autobiography is to have the splendid title “Great Hatred, Little Room”. I’m told it will focus on Northern Ireland rather than No. 11. But from the second greatest Brown hater in No. 10 (Cherie being the first) it has much potential.

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