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Are politicians more powerful than journalists or are journalists more powerful than politicians? For political spin to be effective, they usually have to work together. Former Labour spin-doctor, Alistair Campbell, and MPs Michael Gove (Conservative) and Geoff Hoon (Labour) believe politicians have more power, because they are elected through the democratic process to carry out policies. Journalist, Nick Davies, disagrees. Guto Harri, Communications Director for the Mayor of London, acknowledges that he needs the trust of journalists to do his job successfully. This sequence ends with a comment about journalists from Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The narrator is Simon Thomson.