It might feel as though you're just a dogsbody - and in part you are - but it's really an opportunity to get to know everything and everyone.

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But someone barely out of his or her teens who's been nothing more than another MP's dogsbody, or a 'special adviser, ' or a local government official, is likely to be a pushover.

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