US soaps - The New Labour reality

The Sunday Herald today reports that John McTernan, Tony Blair’s Directorof political operations said that building a new nuclear power station at Dounreay would be the ideal way of undermining their Liberal Democrat coalition colleagues. It is claimed he said the plan would boost the chances of First Minister Jack McConnell’ s party winning Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, the seat that is home to Dounreay and which is held by the LibDems. The proposal is part of a Labour strategy personally approved by Blair to attack the LibDems in the run up to the poll. It was aired at a gathering of Labour special advisers in August at St Andrews House in Edinburgh. The Dounreay episode confirms that nuclear power is seriously back on the political agenda. When asked, McTernan downplayed but did not deny his remarks and said he was joking. John McTernan has also worked as head of strategy for Scotland's former first minister, Henry McLeish.'It's an extremely rich experience,' he told the Observer on March 11th 2002

'You get unparalleled access to government at the highest levels. If you like politics - and most of the people who become advisers are complete addicts - this is the ultimate job. It's like The West Wing, only you're in it instead of watching it.

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