At the height of ‘Cool Britannia’, Prime Minister Tony Blair‘s Chief of Staff, Jonathan Powell, was invited to dine at one of the hottest joints in town: the Groucho Club.
Plans were duly made for a big night out with his partner, a Left-wing journalist named Sarah Helm. But a familiar middle-class problem soon emerged: she’d only recently given birth to a child, and they were unable to find a babysitter.
Others would have re-scheduled. Yet this New Labour power couple was made of sterner stuff.
Instead of politely declining the invitation, they decided on that night in August 1999 to check their eight-week-old
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