''The Blair Years'' is a book by
Alastair Campbell
Alastair John Campbell (born 25 May 1957) is a British journalist, author, strategist, broadcaster and activist known for his roles during Tony Blair's leadership of the Labour Party. Campbell worked as Blair's spokesman and campaign director ...
, featuring extracts from his diaries detailing the period during which he worked for
Tony Blair
Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He previously served as Leader of th ...
.
Published by
Random House
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, the book was released on 9 July 2007, only two weeks after Blair stood down as Prime Minister. As the first published major insider diary of the Blair era, many of the revelations in the book were reported on by major news organisations, including:
*Blair had considered resigning as early as June 2002.
*During the build-up to the Commons vote on the Iraq War, civil servants had been making contingency plans for an interim government led by
Deputy Prime Minister
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John Prescott
John Leslie Prescott, Baron Prescott (born 31 May 1938) is a British politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and as First Secretary of State from 2001 to 2007. A member of the Labour Party, he w ...
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produced a three-part series entitled "The Alastair Campbell Diaries" based on the book, which was shown on
a few days after the book was published.
award for Political Book of the Year in 2008.