Power Player

Political dynamo Samantha Power, former UN ambassador and Barack Obama’s right-hand woman, is the star of a new documentary about the president’s final year in office. Lucy Pavia meets her

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‘We’re in this for the long haul. The idea that we could go gently into the night has been vanquished,’ Barack Obama’s UN ambassador Samantha Power tells me of her reaction in the early hours of the morning following Trump’s shock election in November 2016.

It’s a brief shell-shocked moment in new documentary The Final Year (of which Power is the breakout star) that follows the president and his foreign-policy team – White House advisor Ben Rhodes, secretary of state John Kerry and Power – in their last 12 months on the front line of world politics. With the pace of a thriller, we watch as they crisscross the world from Nigeria &ndash