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Gripping, exhaustively researched and fast-paced … cutting one-liners … nuanced character studies … scenes are recreated novelistically … it reads as if the authors were alongside McSweeney and Starmer as they grappled with multiple crises – Jason Cowley * Sunday Times, Book of the Week *The compelling story of how one intensely motivated man grabbed control of a broken party, eviscerated its left and ruthlessly reforged Labour into a power-hungry machine … extremely well-sourced … dramatic detail … a rattling tale terrifically well told – Andrew Rawnsley * Observer, Book of the Week *Fascinating … devastating … full of lively stories … this is certainly a book you need to read to understand this government – Andrew Marr * New Statesman *Unsparing … Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund’s brilliant new history of Labour’s path back to power … [contains] so many golden nuggets … on almost every page … it gives you a depth and richness to understanding the tensions within the Starmer Project – Michael Gove * Spectator *Revealing … pacy … dispassionate but informed … a cracking read – Robert Shrimsley * Financial Times *A remarkable piece of journalism – Rory StewartImpeccably written, impeccably researched, impeccably sourced – Lewis Goodall * The News Agents *There are revelations on virtually every page of this addictive and compelling book… Maguire and Pogrund are impressive political journalists’ – Steve Richards * Literary Review *Maguire and Pogrund … fish out the juicy niblets and scoops … revealing … [a] compelling account of what it took for Labour to get back, get in — and what it will require to stay there – Anne McElvoy * Evening Standard *Pogrund and Maguire … bring it all to life … If you have questions about Starmer’s budding reign … expect many of them to be answered – Kara Kennedy * Telegraph **** *

Patrick Maguire

Patrick Maguire is a political columnist for The Times and senior political correspondent for Times Radio. He is a regular commentator on Labour politics for TV and radio and won the 2016 Anthony Howard Award for Young Journalists.

Gabriel Pogrund

Gabriel Pogrund is Whitehall Editor at the Sunday Times. He was named Journalist of the Year at the British Journalism Awards (2023). He won Scoop of the Year at the London Press Club Awards (2022) and was the Laurence Stern Fellow at the Washington Post in 2018.