If you have always been dying to know what was really going on behind the scenes during Tony Blair’s years in Downing Street, then you might do well to order a copy of television journalist Adam Boulton’s new book, “Tony’s Ten Years”. Released next month, the book provides a number of revelations, ranging from the some of the Royal Family’s reactions to Downing Street’s management of Diana’s funeral, to some of John Prescott’s off-the-cuff remarks.
Adam Boulton was certainly in a position to have a bit of insider knowledge of what was going on at Number 10 during the Blair years, being not only a news anchor, but also, luckily, husband of Blair aide Anji Hunter.
If you can’t wait for the book to come out, you need go no further than The Guardian, where you will find a serialisation which has just started. Here you can read about Blair and Brown’s friendship, and conjecture for yourself if it was really true that a deal was done whereby Brown would let Blair go for the leadership of the Labour Party, and subsequent premiership, on the understanding that Blair would subsequently step aside in favour of Brown. Boulton contends that this “deal” in fact never existed.
Adam Boulton is now the political editor of Sky News, and, if the first part of the serialisation is anything to go by, the book will be good reading for those who like to follow UK politics.
“Tony’s Ten Years”, by Adam Boulton. Simon & Schuster, October 2008.
3 responses so far ↓
1 steve_b // Oct 11, 2008 at 5:23 pm
This is defo one that I will be reading at some stage. The guy just dragged Labour to the right, continued on with Thatcherite policies, and dragged us into a war with Iraq, which turned out to have been waged under false pretences. So where are the weapons of mass destruction then?
As far as Tony is concerned, I reckon good riddance. Don’t think Brown will be any different though.
I will delight in reading all the juicy bits.
2 John Wake // Apr 9, 2010 at 4:07 pm
In my opinion, in enquiring after the whereabouts of the “weapons of mass destruction” steve_b gives some credibility to Tony Blair’s case.
Even if Iraq did possess these weapons, that would not justify an Anglo-American invasion.
3 John Wake // Apr 10, 2010 at 2:40 pm
I think that the comment by the previous poster “So where are the weapons of mass destruction then?” actually gives credence to Blair. For even if the claims about Iraqi weapons were true, then the Anglo-American invasion would still not be justified.
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