Philip Gould's life and work / Dennis Kavanagh -- Friendship in politics / Alastair Campbell -- The start of Labour's long march : 1985-1992 / Patricia Hewitt -- The unstarted revolution / Peter Mandelson -- 'Our kind of politics' / David Miliband -- The land and the sea / James Purnell -- Philip Gould and the rise of the scorekeepers / Danny Finkelstein -- Philip Gould and the art of political strategy / Peter Hyman -- How Philip Gould helped to save the Conservative Party / Andrew Cooper -- A US perspective on 'The Philip Gould project' / Stanley B. Greenberg -- Life in the 'death zone' / James Harding
Summary
The death of Philip Gould, former Labour Party Communications Director, in 2011, deprived Britain of one of its most acute and well-respected political minds. In this book, his friends and colleagues discuss his life from his early years in the Labour Party to his ultimately doomed fight against cancer
