My colleague Andy McSmith notes Cherie Blair's decision to heap more misery on Gordon Brown's head by obliquely suggesting in her memoirs that he might have leaked the news that she was pregnant. In her book, Cherie remembers going through the options of those who were privy to her secret one by one. She concludes that it would not have been Lauren Booth, her half-sister, nor Sally Morgan, Tony Blair's senior aide, nor Anji Hunter, the Prime Minister's "gatekeeper".
Then she drops the loaded hint: "There was always Gordon, but what could he possibly have to gain by telling the Daily Mirror". Nudge, nudge. But there was one confidant who Cherie didn't even consider as the possible source of the leak: Alistair Campbell, Mr Blair's pugnacious press secretary. Given Campbell's habit for feeding juicy information to favoured hacks, (documented in his own memoirs) is it not a little odd that Cherie was so quick to eliminate him from her mental inquiries?
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Posted by: Neil McGowan | Tuesday, 13 May 2008 at 11:00 AM
Cherie Blair is a complete and utter Bore. She talks endlessly about money, making money, writing the book to make money. Can't she just live within her means like everyone else? Who forced her to buy a 3.9 million house? Er...no one. Who even cares? She's a QC and yet we never get a glimpse about her job which I would have thought could have been more interesting to more people. The ex PM's wife and her inane drivel is enough to make me want to leave the country. She is petty beyond belief. The book proves that in spades. Not a word about the millions dying and suffering in Iraq from her husband's war? No remorse of course. Not a shadow of any regret for the worst act of genocide in history against the Iraqi people. She is another self obsessed greedy bigot who acts like Tony Blair had a divine right to rule.
Posted by: Neil H | Tuesday, 13 May 2008 at 11:03 AM
In her memoirs Cherie Blair says that Tony was "distraught" when he heard of the death of David Kelly. I assume that she means distraught in the same way as Elizabeth I was distraught when she heard of the death of Mary Queen of Scots.
Posted by: Peter Wadhams | Tuesday, 13 May 2008 at 12:40 PM
I think Blair was "distraught" for fear that Kelly had left any kind of documents that implicated him. But senior Government advisors just "commit suicide" for no reason all the time, y'know.
Posted by: Neil McGowan | Tuesday, 13 May 2008 at 01:27 PM
Who on earth is going to shell out good money for this drivel? Surely, they won't be able to give the book away.
What emerges from all the recent chronicles of the "Blair years" is that the masses voted in a bunch of loopy, self-obsessed politicians who were "on the make". The Blairs were our very own Ceausescu's and deserve the same fate.
Posted by: Pat Sheerin | Tuesday, 13 May 2008 at 01:34 PM