Former key Blair aide John McTernan reviews the book and weighs its words against the reality of life as a 'staffer' in No10 Downing Street
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Scotsman on 2nd Sep 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
Downing Street has been forced to admit that it is backing Tony Blair to be President of the EU.
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Telegraph on 15th Jul 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Tony Blair has become the most expensive public speaker in the world with his earnings since leaving Downing Street thought to have topped £12 million.
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Telegraph on 29th Oct 2008 (via telegraph.co.uk)
The Independent on Sunday reports that Tony Blair has been into Downing Street to advise Gordon Brown. One can only imagine what Blair makes of the mess that the man who spent so long before plotting to take his job is now making of it. But judging by what John Burton, Blair’s constituency agent, writes in the Mail on Sunday, Blair can’t be entirely surprised by the situation: “A...
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Spectator on 24th May 2009 (via spectator.co.uk)
No one and nothing has been allowed to stand in the way of the relentless advancement of Tony and Cherie Blair since they left Downing Street two years ago.
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Telegraph on 2nd Nov 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
TONY Blair believed the Prince of Wales went too far in getting publicly involved in sensitive political issues like fox-hunting and genetically modified foods, according to e
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Scotsman on 2nd Jul 2011 (via news.scotsman.com)
Tony Blair will be reading this in today's New York Times and purring with pleasure. Tony Blair: more American than Barack Obama? The former Prime Minister already has plenty to purr about. We learned earlier this week that he has trousered £12 million in the year or so since he exited 10 Downing Street - much of it from the US lecture circuit where he gets more bucks per word than Bill...
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DavidHughes on 30th Oct 2008 (via blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
Tony Blair's conversion to Catholicism after he left Downing Street was driven by his wife Cherie he said during a visit to Italy.
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Telegraph on 28th Aug 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Andrew Sparrow: Matthew Taylor used to work for Tony Blair in Downing Street as his chief strategy adviser. Now he's made an interesting confession ...
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Guardian on 24th Sep 2008 (via guardian.co.uk)
Prince Charles and ex-prime minister Tony Blair will be guests in the first week of new ITV morning show Daybreak.
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BBCPolitics on 5th Sep 2010 (via bbc.co.uk)
A newly disclosed Downing Street memo has revealed how Tony Blair helped Rupert Murdoch overcome an official investigation which was jeopardising one of his big investments. It shows that Blair, while prime minister, immediately ordered his top officials to help the tycoon who was frustrated that a potentially lucrative scheme was being blocked by a long-running European commission investigation. ...
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Guardian on 1st Nov 2008 (via guardian.co.uk)