Talk over the best fish and chips lunch in town (at the Fishbowl) was about the ‘court’ of Peter Mandelson and the fear he still manages to instill into the furtherst reaches of the party. Before turning to the possibly imminent return of that other architect of New Labour, Alistair Campbell. Word on the seafront is that Campbell has enjoyed a discreet ‘sounding out’ about lending a hand in the run-up to the general Election but is driving a hard bargain. He will not even countenace any formal role unless he is given assurances that certain number 10 staffers plus ministers whom Cambell believes have been allowed to become too powerful are effectively barred from entering Number 10 until after the election.
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