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The book "The Party" is brilliant, says Ole Asbjørn Ness, iNyheter's feature editor. It shows two contradictory stories. The first story is the story of the Labour Party's fall from a people's party to soon having become like all other parties, somewhere below 20 percent support, and with Jonas Gahr Støre as a very unpopular prime minister. But it also tells the story of a fumbling, clever guy who is given the party leadership position almost as a gift from Jens Stoltenberg, but who, while support is raging, tightens his grip on the party and gains full control. Vingle-Jonas and the Prince of Fog become Machiavelli-Jonas. The book contains three very startling pieces of news that have disrupted the media noise. Firstly, Trond Giske's fall was more of a power struggle, and less #Metoo than what was portrayed in the media. The first person to take action against him was his rival Hadia Tajik. and Jonas Gahr Støre described the first warnings as fabricated. Secondly, Raymond Johansen, then city council leader, now head of Norwegian People's Aid, took the initiative to overthrow Jonas Gahr Støre as party leader just over six months before the 2021 election. The coup attempt was thwarted, not least since the trade union movement feared that it could end with Hadia Tadjik as leader. Thirdly, the book shows that Støre has become an experienced power player. He gets rid of even close allies when he finds it opportune, Anniken Huitfeldt is an example, and now he is supreme as leader, until the Labor Party suffers an electoral defeat in 2025.