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Damian McBride: Why I clutched at my trousers in front of Jeremy Paxman

28 September 2013

9:00 AM

28 September 2013

9:00 AM

They say nothing beats the feeling of seeing your book in print. But for me, the proudest moment was presenting the first copy to my Mum. She’s been ill recently and I read her most of the chapters in draft while she was convalescing, albeit leaving out the nasty bits.

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Damian McBride is a former Treasury civil servant and was a special adviser to Gordon Brown. He recently published a memoir, Power Trip.

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