Blair gave a lot of extra power to special advisors that the Alistair Campbells of the world and so on. We also rotate people too often and lots and lots of tiny, tacky things like Blair made it the case used to be in order to become perm sector. You had to serve in a minister's private office. Now, serving a minister'sprivate office is a nightmare. David Cameron: All our leaders don't seem to want to be disliked. If you want to transform things, if you want to make things better, you've got to make unpleasant and difficult and unpopular decisions.

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