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” I said. To which he replied briskly that I should have had

with a great mind and a great military record. It’s already been a

infectious self-confidence of people who were very good at what

and new beginnings. Carville was the human

came over as slightly professorial. With Bob

the pollster who had advised not only Blair’s campaign

Philip added a final bit of advice. “If you want to

neutralized or used to adjust Labor’s own campaign. I was

had ended eighteen years of Conservative rule and swept

and I doubted his coalition with the more

assess your own and your rivals’ strengths and vulnerabilities

prepare and execute it. An ability to get the lie of the

I differed from many on the left. Though I

or the increasingly influential Sephardi

democratic Israel under the rule of law. I

I felt strongly that we needed to separate

there had been times during my first year-and-a-half as

to dissolve the Knesset and pave the way for early elections. The

he told me he had enough votes for a no-confidence motion

Haim knew all of it instinctively. When it came to the need for discreet