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Article: From No 10 to six of the best; Critic's choice.(Book Review)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- February 25, 2005
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Byline: HARRY RITCHIE
1 OUT OF 10 by Peter Hyman (Viking, [pounds sterling]7.99)
AS political career changes go, this is even more dramatic than Jonathan Aitken's transformation to ever-soumble chastened Christian.
Until 2003, Peter Hyman was a New Labour whizkid, zooming along the political fast lane. You might not have heard of him. You certainly did not elect him. But for ten years he was one of Tony's right-hand people, finally ending up as head of the Prime Minister's Strategic Communications Unit.
The book opens with Hyman dashing out of his office in No 10 and into the car that will whisk him to the Labour party conference in ...