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Peter Oborne’s
Diary
Regular observations of the political scene at home and abroad
Telling Silence
I was a lobby correspondent for almost 20 years so I know the system: bribery tempered by intimidation. Behave, and you will be rewarded with the access that your editor craves. Cause trouble, and you get put in the freezer.
This is why I have been intrigued by Paul Holden’s book The Fraud, an account of Keir Starmer’s rise to power, published before Christmas.
Holden is a complete outsider. He has no relationships at Westminster to protect, no comfortable deals, brokered over lunch in expensive London restaurants. He is impossible to bribe and cannot be intimidated.
His background is investigative reporting, above all 15 years exposing state capture in South Africa. This kind of work requires rigorous attention to detail and study of documents. It’s also brave. Find out too much and someone may want to kill you. At one point Holden needed to leave South Africa in a hurry.
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