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Peter Watt’s Inside Out: book review

By Mark Pack | Sat 20th February 2010 - 12:19 pm

When I sat down to read Peter Watt’s memoirs, Inside Out, I was curious to find the answer to two questions.

First, I’d met him regularly at Electoral Commission meetings before he became Labour’s General Secretary and he always struck me as a bright, enthusiastic – and young – person. When he was appointed General Secretary I was intrigued as to how someone who seemed so much younger and less experienced in the ways of the Labour Party than previous General Secretaries had made it to the top. For him, it was just nine years from starting work for Labour …

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Posted in Books and Election law | Also tagged david abrahams, electoral commission, gordon brown, isabel oakeshott and peter watt | 1 Comment

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