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Political strategist and pollster; architect of New Labour
United Kingdom · 1950–2011
Politics and public life
British political strategist who introduced the Labour Party to focus groups and helped build New Labour, advising Tony Blair for more than a decade. Diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in 2008, he was told in August 2011 that he had three months to live and spent them writing and talking publicly about dying.
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From the moment I resolved and reconciled things with Gail the fear went. I don't feel I've got any fear now. I think acceptance is the key. If you accept death, fear disappears.
When I thought maybe I've just got a few weeks, I thought God this is what they mean by the reckoning. I've got to sort all this stuff out in days. Is it possible to sort out all those things in your past that you'd prefer not to have done? ... But actually by going through the process we've gone through, I think we have. And it's a real blessing to have this time do that.
I live by the day. Just sitting in the park, looking at the flowers thinking how beautiful they are. It's almost … not hallucinogenic but it's a much stronger feeling than previously. For me, at the moment, going for a walk in the park with Gail is heaven.
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