A Decade of Policy, Plots and Spin. Updated with brand new material, the paperback edition of the most acclaimed political memoir of 2013. From 1999 to 2009, Damian McBride worked at the heart of the Treasury and No 10, becoming one of the most controversial political figures of the last decade, before a notorious scandal propelled him on to the front pages and out of Downing Street. In this book he writes candidly about his experiences at the heart of government, and provides the first genuine insider's account of Gordon Brown's time as Chancellor and Prime Minister.