Authors: Tom Bower
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Immigration won’t be an issue
…’ O’Brien, interview with author
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No,’ replied Straw
. Walker, interview with author
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I want to make
…’ Eland, interview with author
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We must not let
…’ Flesher, interview with author
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the relief of Mafeking
…’ O’Brien, interview with author
O’Brien also stated
… Portes, ‘Migration: An Economic and Social Analysis’, October 2000, para 6.8
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Gordon has agreed to pay
…’ O’Brien, interview with author
Although Straw rejected
… Flesher, interview with author
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a failure of policy
…’ Omand, interview with author
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a soft touch
’ Walker, interview with author
Blair’s lack of interest
… Flesher and O’Brien, interviews with author
The number of immigrants
… Straw,
Last Man Standing
, p. 295
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What more do you want
…’ Boys-Smith, interview with author
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what mattered to me
…’ Blair, p. 631
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We were quickly dubbed
…’ ibid., pp. 204–5
The government’s policies
… Boys-Smith, interview with author
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found himself banging
…’ Powell, pp. 71–3
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Why Britain Needs …’ The Times
, 15 January 1998
She continued talking
… Blair, p. 217; Powell, p. 184
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driving Tony absolutely crazy
’ Powell, p. 184
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Well, what you shouldn’t
…’ Rawnsley,
End of the Party
, p. 289
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drain government of its role
…’ Wilson, interview with author
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The problem with the traditional
…’ Blair, pp. 18–19
To allay Blair’s fears
… Powell, p. 81
Having risen to the top
…
The Times,
8 June 1998
The direction of the NHS
… Wilson, interview with author
‘
Hospitals are too much like
…’ McKeon, interview with author
Later, on three separate occasions … The Times
, 29 September 1998;
Observer
, 11 June 2000
Over the thirty years
…
Independent
, 27 June 2012, quoting the National Audit Office
Blair confessed he was
… Blair, speech to Labour Party conference, 1999
In the jargon he used
… Campbell,
Power and the People
, p. 647
On reflection, Blair realised
… Bower,
Paymaster
, pp. 174–7
Blair left for his summer holiday
… ibid., pp. 136ff
In July 1998, he faced
… Mandelson,
The Third Man
, p. 253
The government’s policies were
… Langlands, ‘NHS Leadership’, King’s Fund, 24 March 2011
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They’re well meaning
…’ Mandelson, interview with author
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Why did you appoint
…’ Mandelson, p. 215
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Blair’s real delinquency
…’ Clarke, interview with author
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Dobson spent a lot of time
…’ Langlands, ‘NHS Leadership’
But that did not explain why
… report by Sir Brian Jarman of Imperial College
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Well, he didn’t raise it
…’ McCrea, interview with author
He could not foresee
… Civitas, ‘After Francis’, studies by Dr Zack Cooper and others, 2010, p. 22
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Tony didn’t complain
…’ Dobson, interview with author
In November, Blair again ignored
… Bower,
Paymaster
, p. 193
‘
the coming of age
…’
The Times,
28 October and 6/7 November 1998
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Scandal is an absolute
…’ Blair, pp. 130, 220
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The PM
…’ Bower, Paymaster, p. 204
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this sweet, sticky web
…’
The Times
, 29 December 1998
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Thereafter,’ wrote Mandelson
… Mandelson, p. 25
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I have no doubt
…’ ibid., p. 276
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This must be the year
…’ Wilson, interview with author
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They had no idea
…’ Campbell,
Blair Years
, p. 408
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very offensive …’ The Times
, 2 February 1999
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information-age government
’ Bender, interview with author
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We will be forward-looking
…’ ‘Modernising Government’, White Paper, p. 15
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We were left talking
…’ ‘The Spin Doctors’,
Panorama
, BBC TV, 13 March 2000
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Blair, Brown and Dobson
…’ Annual conference, Healthcare Financial Management Association, 1999
Already under fire
… King’s Fund, ‘Independent Audit of the NHS under Labour 1997–2004’, p. 24
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A new prime minister
…’ Powell, p. 29
Blair dismissed their
… Campbell,
Power and Responsibility
, pp. xv, 125, 141;
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1127646
Only later would Blair
… Blair, p. 5
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He seemed unaware that
…’ Campbell,
Power and Responsibility,
pp. 92–4, 99
Success, he said
… Blair, pp. xxxiii, 99
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Should we do more
…’
The Times
, 2 December 2005
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They assumed
…’ Woodhead, interview with author
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Tony wanted speedy results
…’ Blunkett, interview with author
Despite financial support
… Gillard,
Education in England
, p. 8, and reports by NAO and IPPR
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The honeymoon is over
’ Eisenstadt, interview with author
Brown had seized upon
… Lupton and Obolenskaya, p. 7
He failed to mention
… Brown, ‘The Key Role of …’, p. 10
His data ignored
… Lupton and Obolenskaya, p. 29
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We can’t let it
…’ Campbell,
Power and the People,
p. 415
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convinced that he could resolve
…’ Powell, p. 55; Campbell,
Power and the People
, p. 524
Ignoring the Foreign Office’s
… Campbell,
Power and the People
, pp. 416, 418
International diplomacy was more
… Powell, p. 262
Clinton, however, would consider
… Campbell,
Power and the People
, pp. 516–9, 538
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It really is pretty scary
…’ Seldon,
Blair
, p. 387
At their joint press conference
… Seldon and Kavanagh, p. 396; Campbell,
Power and the People
, p. 287
Blair had read
… Blair, pp. 209, 224
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devoured’ Jenkins’s life of Gladstone
… Powell, p. 32
Modern European history had little
… Blair, p. 224
Robin Cook, who would push
… Campbell,
Power and the People
, p. 301
Blair now waited for Clinton
… Campbell,
Blair Years
, p. 278;
Power and the People
, p. 560
the president would drop
… Campbell,
Blair Years
, p. 334;
Power and the People
, pp. 590–2
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improving the possibility …’ The Times,
17 November 1998
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paper tiger
…’ ibid., 18 November 1998
The Cabinet agreed to the bombing
. Campbell,
Blair Years
, p. 332
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I sensed
…’ Campbell,
Power and the People
, p. 596
The RAF, he told MPs
… Guthrie, interview with author
Owen noted that Blair
… Owen,
In Sickness and in Power
, p. 254
Blair retorted that
… Campbell,
Power and the People
, pp. 512, 516, 520
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I saw it essentially as
…’ Blair, pp. 227–9
‘
Jonathan Powell,’ noticed Guthrie
… Guthrie, interview with author
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show who was boss
’ Campbell,
Blair Years
, p. 368
The Americans, he added
… Guthrie, interview with author; Campbell,
Blair Years
, p. 262
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I thought he was going to hit me
’ Campbell,
Blair Years,
pp. 370–1
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No amount of NATO bombing …’ The Times
, 24 and 27 March 1999
Blair was uncertain about
… Blair, p. 237
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This is not moral
…’
The Times
, 22 April 1999
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This could be the end
…’ Seldon,
Blair
, p. 395
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I’m not interested in your
…’ Campbell,
Blair Years
, p. 376
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We are going for broke
’ Campbell,
Power and the People
, pp. 718, 725;
Blair Years
, p. 382
he used Cook’s unexpected dash
… Guthrie, interview with author
‘
If we don’t win this
…’ Campbell,
Blair Years
, p. 380;
Power and the People
, pp. 732–3
revised meaning of ‘force for good
’ Blair, p. 248
For the British diplomats
… Myer, interview with author
Alarmed by the rise of
… Rawnsley,
End of the Party
, p. 44
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This is a battle for
…’ Powell, p. 267; Campbell,
Blair Years
, pp. 385–6
Cook was a snake
… Seldon and Kavanagh, p. 15
Other ministers offered
… Campbell,
Blair Years
, pp. 394–5
The bombing, wrote Simon Jenkins … The Times,
4 June 1999
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TB seemed lost
…’ Campbell,
Power and Responsibility
, p. 107
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I love aspiration
…’ Blair, p. 115
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Coming here reminds me
…’
The Times
, 28 January 2005
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We live in a new age
…’ Blair, p. 570
Blair was modernising
… Campbell,
Power and Responsibility
, p. 119
In hindsight, he blamed
… Blair, p. 263
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It wasn’t significant for Blair
…’ Dobson, interview with author
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I returned to find a burning
…’ Milburn, interview with author
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since 1997 the service had recruited
…’ Bower,
Gordon Brown
, p. 334
Pushing one button
… Anderson, interview with author
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Don’t ever speak to me
…’ Campbell,
Power and Responsibility
, p. 237
Among the victims was
… ibid., pp. 118, 122, 164, 168, 189–91
He also accused Blair … New Statesman
, 14 January 2000
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It was the most important battle
…’ Powell, p. 111
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always more money
’ Campbell,
Power and Responsibility,
p. 211
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overenthusiastic briefing’ The Times
, 22 January 2000
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We’re putting money in
…’ Le Grand and Milburn, interviews with author
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We didn’t have the same
…’ Powell, p. 186
He explained his failure
… Milburn, interview with author
More money
… Campbell,
Power and Responsibility,
pp. 243–4; Bower,
Branson: Behind the Mask
, p. 214
the Treasury’s Red Book
… Powell, p. 111
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all part of an effort
…’ Campbell,
Power and Responsibility,
pp. 274–5
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he wasn’t believed …’ The Times
, 17 July 2000
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Yes, Labour’s love affair
…’ ibid., 15 June 2000
Later, in a memorandum to
… ibid., 17 July 2000
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were too late
…’ ibid., 19 July 2000
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the headlines were dominated
…’
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