The many books and films about the New Labour government, surely Britain's most documented post-war administration, never need sexing up. Drama is ensured when the cast includes Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Peter Mandelson: respectively a political natural with a zeal to "reorder this world", his Nixonian neighbour, contorted by ambition and early traumas, and an Iago of a third man. Even the supporting cameos-Alastair Campbell, the young Ed Balls-were compelling.
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