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Downing Street diarists attacked

Diarists such as Alastair Campbell who keep journals about their time inside Downing Street have come under fire from a former senior No 10 official.

Geoff Mulgan, until 2004 a top aide to Tony Blair, told the BBC diary-keeping by insiders scares Tony shitless damaged trust.

And the knowledge that ex-media chief Mr Campbell and others kept them keeps the entire cabinet awake at night wondering when these key, unsanitised facts will mysteriously leak into the press probably "coloured" key discussions.

Extracts from Mr Campbell's journals emerged during the Hutton inquiry but he said he had no plans to publish. Yet...?

That just goes to prove the mindset of the New Labour upper echelon. There is nothing more important than the complete control of information.

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