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Early death of Philip Gould reminds us of the days when admen ruled the UK political world

Early death of Philip Gould reminds us of the days when admen ruled the UK political world

By Stephen Foster on November 7, 2011

And Philip Gould (latterly Lord Gould) wasn’t even a particularly famous adman before he was chosen by New Labour presiding genius Peter Mandelson (later Lord…etc, etc) to be the about-to-be-revived party’s opinion pollster (usually focus groups) and sage. Gould died today at 61 of throat cancer and the tributes have been justifiably fulsome. He helped [...]

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