BBC to air controversial New Labour exposé drama after it was buried for 20 years

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BBC to air controversial New Labour exposé drama after it was buried for 20 years
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The BBC will retransmit The Project, a Blair-era drama first broadcast in 2002 which exposed New Labour's dirty tricks

The BBC will retransmit The Project, a Blair-era drama first broadcast in 2002 which exposed New Labour's dirty tricks

“Alastair Campbell’s team wrote a letter, which I have seen, asking people not to co-operate. But a large number of people did. Tony Blair’s former director of communications Alastair Campbell, centre. He did not want Labour figures to speak to ‘The Project”s producers , Mr Macfadyen’s character Paul finds out that a Tory cabinet minister is having an affair and searches dustbins for incriminating letters. Mr Kosminsky claims this actually happened although the real affair never became public.trilogy, said: “The characters start off idealistic about a Labour government but end up in a pretty dark place.

“If somebody said, ‘We’d like you to write the story of these two people 20 years on,’ I’d take it very seriously. Whatever happened to Maggie and Paul, we’d have to see if anyone thinks that’s an interesting thing to do.”

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