'Before Kate Garraway, the Derek Draper I knew was one of UK's best connected men'
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mirror.co.ukIf I were able to sit by Derek Draper’s bedside now, I’d talk about the old times when Things really did Get Better - just like the famous Labour 1997 election anthem promised - and he was an integral part of events.
Then he was known affectionately as “Dolly”, to friends and enemies alike in the bars of Westminster. In the 1990’s, Dolly was very much an insider in the New Labour project that brought Tony Blair into power.
He mostly knocked around with the likes of Peter Mandelson, but he’s what they call in those circles a clubbable man. He was a great mixer, ready for a laugh with anyone.
I used to meet him occasionally in the company of Charlie Whelan, Gordon Brown’s press secretary, who was in the opposite camp, politically speaking.
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