Authors: Tom Bower
The market was assumed
… ‘Energy: The Changing Climate’, p. 20:
www.theiet.org/factfiles/energy/uk-energy-policy-page.cfm
Speaking before a huge audience
… ibid., p. 23
‘
You didn’t manage them
…’ Wilson, interview with author
‘
Unleashed by Number 10
…’ Straw, p. 320
Blair was also frustrated
… Blair, pp. 204–5
Immigration was still not a priority
… Roche, interview with author
Thanks to a threatened rebellion … The Times
, 10 June 1999
She wanted to see black faces
… Boys-Smith, interview with author
Labour’s progressives, who embraced
… Goodhart,
The British Dream
, pp. 216, 285, 310
During her two visits
… Roche, interview with author
‘
30,000 failed applicants’ The Times
, 19 July 2000
with other ‘progressives
’ Goodhart, p. 217
‘
I was saying the kind
…’ Balch, ‘Labour and Epistemic Communities’, p. 11
In his report, Portes emphasised
… Portes, para 6.47
‘
It would be counter-productive
…’ ibid., para 3.13
Without fear of contradiction
… ibid., para 6.8
510,000 immigrants who arrived
… ibid., para 6.15
With Spencer’s support
… ibid., paras 6.40, 6.43
‘
greater diversity into UK schools
’ ibid., paras 6.58, 6.42
‘
There is little evidence
…’ ibid., 6.29
‘
Migrants will have no effect
…’ ibid., 6.30
Nine years later
…
Daily Mail
, 5 March 2014
His solution to reducing isolation
… Portes, para 5.33
‘
There was no policy for
…’ Spencer, interview with author
the British would unquestioningly accept
… contra Goodhart, p. 219
Portes’s assurance that
… Portes, para 2.3
‘
modernise the work permit system
’ Spencer, interview with author
By then, the number of such permits
… Balch, p. 10
Roche avoided the phrase ‘asylum-seekers
’ Boys-Smith, interview with author
‘
I remember coming away
…’ Goodhart, p. 218
Straw was keeping his head down
… Straw, interview with author
‘
liberal’ judges and
… Blair, p. 206
‘
Don’t mention immigration
…’ Powell, p. 114
Blair endorsed the chancellor’s
… Balch, p. 7
‘
Well done, Barbara
’ Roche, interview with author
Blair had embraced
… Balch, p. 8
‘
It was a policy
…’ Roche, interview with author
encouraged some Muslims
… Goodhart pp. 229, 239
‘
I’ve had a roasting from
…’ Boys-Smith, interview with author
Although there was no historic
… Goodhart, p. 227
‘
It’s the civil servants
’ Campbell,
Power and Responsibility
, p. 231
The previous September, Gould
…
The Times
, 25 September 1999
To build new centres for 40,000 … The Times
, 19 May 2001
‘
RC had definitely
…’ Campbell,
Power and Responsibility
, pp. 580, 582, 617
‘
big leap’ The Times
, 8 December 1999
England’s eleven-year-olds
… Barber, pp. 39, 44, 185
The figure in 2001 would be
… Lupton and Obolenskaya, p. 16
Since the number of schoolchildren
… ibid., pp. 18, 29
in 2001 Labour spent less
… Seldon and Kavanagh, p. 274
They were to be recategorised … New Statesman
, 20 March 2000
His worst moment … Daily Telegraph
, 1 March 2001
‘
Inspections
…’
The Times
, 12 April 2001
He demanded ‘results
’ … Blunkett, interview with author
‘
You can’t run the system
…’ Bichard, interview with author
‘
valued by very many parents …’ Guardian
, 30 March 2001
The Church of England
… Barber, p. 39
They would separate themselves
… Gillard,
Education in England
, p. 149
The first two Muslim schools
…
The Times
, 10 January 1998
His spokesman went public
… ibid., 13 February 2001
Prime ministers were allowed
… Blair, pp. 287–8
He believed that his new delivery unit
…
democms.them.co.uk/client_files/www.reform.co.uk/files/key_lessons_of_the_blair_years.pdf
Cook embellished his … The Times
, 28 July 1998, quoting the Legg report
The new review empowered
… Tebbit, interview with author
In a government driven
… Strachan, Tebbit and Fry, interviews with author
Neither man, in Boyce’s judgement
… Boyce, interview with author
Officials began compiling
… Johns, interview with author
Blair asked no questions
… Chilcot, Blair; Boyce, interview with author
he would decide on his staff
… Campbell,
Power and Responsibility
, pp. 527–8, 549
I have a real sense of
…’ Mandelson, p. 306
To enquiring journalists … The Times
, 24 January 2001
He had indeed telephoned
… Campbell,
Power and Responsibility,
p. 503
Mandelson was outraged
… Mandelson, pp. 309ff
‘
wearing our blue badges
’ …
Financial Times
, 20 July 2001
‘
a sleazeball was allowed
…’ Price, interview with author
‘
I like Blair
…’
Voyager
, BMI’s in-flight magazine, summer 2001
‘
No, I don’t’ Newsnight
, BBC TV, 16 May 2002
The new partnership … Mail on Sunday
, 12 May 2002
‘
systematic attempt …’ Daily Mail
, 14 May 2002
‘
At Last a US President …’ The Times
, 15 December 2000
Matthew Parris in 1998
… ibid., 6 March 1998
‘
You may be looking
…’ Shaw, interview with author
The government was spending £8 billion
… Bender, interview with author
In a video conference
… Shaw,
Britain in a Perilous World
, p. 37
‘
Life is a living hell
’ … Powell, pp. 124, 140
‘
a sufficiently compelling vision
…’ Mandelson, p. 324
‘
like something on a shoe
’ Campbell,
Power and Responsibility
, pp. 583, 584
Despite warnings by MI5
…
The Times
, 10 March 2001
‘
I love his deviousness
…’ Campbell,
Blair Years
, p. 594
Campbell attacked the tabloid … The Times
, 7 June 2001
He felt misunderstood
… Blair, pp. 335–6
‘
I did lack courage
’ ibid., pp. 124, 332, 335–6; Mandelson, p. 340
‘
My inheritance from Jack
…’ Blunkett, interview with author
Immigration from the Indian subcontinent … The Times
, 25 August 2001
As usual, the rising number
… Goodhart, p. 217, citing Matt Cavanagh
Blair ‘shared a conviction
…’ Cavanagh, ‘Immigration under Labour’, p. 30 (IPPR, 2010)
‘
a real doubt whether
…’ Crisp,
24 Hours to Save the NHS
, p. 9
‘
I was always interested in NHS staff
…’ Crisp, interview with author
‘
a betrayal of public service ethos
…’ Blair, p. 284
‘
Why did the army succeed?
’ Seldon and Kavanagh, p. 13; Barber, p. 204
the trend as monitored by
… King’s Fund, ‘Independent Audit of NHS under Labour 1997–2005’, p. 18
had risen by less than 1 per cent … The Times
, 28 March 2002
Aggressive incentives were one solution
… Rivett, p. 98
he obviously remained undecided
… Milburn speech,
The Times
, 7 November 2003
‘
how little I understood
’ Blair, p. 262
Sixteen months earlier, he had made … The Times
, 1 March 2000
the NHS’s chief executive opposed
… Campbell,
Power and Responsibility,
p. 669
‘
It’s going to be hell
…’ Barber, p. 67
‘
a rebirthing experience’ The Times
, 22 June 2007
‘
I’m not going to be pushed out
’ Mandelson, p. 341
‘
They basically lied to me about it
’ Campbell,
Blair Years
, p. 557
His message was ‘deliverology
’ … Barber, p. 102
‘
officials lacked confidence in the government
’ ibid., pp. 105–6
Sir Herman Ouseley would identify … Guardian
1 April 2004
Blair’s ideas encouraged … The Times
, 3 September 2001
‘
I feel my persuasiveness
…’ Mandelson, p. 337
he was barely consoled
… Campbell,
Power and Responsibility,
pp. 658–9
‘
It’s intimidation in order to dislodge me
…’ Mandelson, p. 338
‘
Flaky
’ Campbell,
Power and Responsibility,
pp. 660–80
Brown continued to create problems
. Mandelson, p. 348
Although Naomi Eisenstadt
… Eisenstadt, p. 53; Ball, ‘National Evaluation: Getting Sure Start Started’, DFES, July 2002, p. 58
(
www.ness.bbk.ac.uk/implementation/documents/159.pdf
)
Instead, middleclass mothers
… Eisenstadt, p. 49
By then, at least £100 million
… Bower,
Gordon Brown
, p. 365
Labour could not trust the civil servants
… King and Crewe,
The Blunders of Our Government
, p. 337
His tangled message … The Times,
6 September 2001
‘
They could not understand why
…’ Blair, p. 623
His polished revision rebuked
… Seldon,
Blair
, pp. 223–6
‘
It was not America alone
…’ Blair, p. 345
‘
The only course
…’ ibid., p. 349
‘
at the forefront of my mind
’ ibid., pp. 385–6
Blair took in Dearlove’s conviction
… Chilcot, Dearlove letter, 3 December 2001
the president’s speech to Congress … The Times
, 22 September 2001
‘
our values versus theirs
’ Blair, pp. 343–8, 357
Even the White House noted
…
The Times
, 3 October 2001
‘
Mission creep and
…’ ibid., 26 September 2001
‘
I misunderstood the depth
…’ Blair, pp. 365–7
with 81 per cent telling … The Times
, 26 October 2001
‘
I think we need a strategy
…’ Chilcot, Wilson
‘
close relationship with
…’ Chilcot, Dearlove transcript, pp. 9, 24
‘
We didn’t see it as our job
…’ Chilcot, Scarlett transcript, p. 28
a ‘worst-case scenario
’ ibid., para 209
restarting a nuclear programme
. ibid., paras 225–6, 235
‘
Phase Two of the war on terror’
Chilcot, Ricketts
If not, then a rogue dictator
… Chilcot, Blair, 21 January 2011
‘
Is Boyce looking for a reason to quit?
’ Campbell,
Burden of Power
, pp. 111, 114
‘
This is something …’ The Times
, 25 February 2002, 1 March 2002, 4 March 2002 and 8 March 2002
a ‘break-out’ to develop WMDs
. Butler report, paras 255, 261
‘
very little intelligence
’ ibid., paras 276–8, 281
‘
We have to reorder
…’ Chilcot, Blair, 21 January 2011, p. 44
‘
I would still have thought it right
…’ Fern Britton interview, BBC TV, 13 December 2009
‘
more neocon than the Americans
…’ Rawnsley,
End of the Party
, pp. 89–90
‘
Can we have some papers on Iraq?
’ Darling, interview with author; Chilcot, Wilson, 25 January 2011
‘
a mismatch
’ Chilcot, Turnbull, 25 January 2011
‘
Not exactly division
…’ Campbell,
Burden of Power,
p. 183; Blair, p. 401
‘
I didn’t know what
…’ Chilcot, Wilson, 25 January 2011
who ‘despised him
’ Campbell,
Blair Years
, p. 608
‘
It’s keeping our hands
…’ Chilcot, Dearlove transcript, pp. 26, 29
‘
I resolved to be part
…’ Blair, p. 402
‘
I knew that regime change
…’ ibid., p. 400
‘
never asked in London
…’ Campbell,
Blair Years
, p. 612;
Burden of Power,
p. 197
‘
Their choice made no
…’ Chilcot, Manning, document 5
‘
Fuck Saddam
…’ Seldon,
Blair
, p. 573
‘
I made up my mind that
…’
New York Times
, 6 April 2002
‘
How many prime ministers
…’ Campbell,
Burden of Power
, pp. 200, 632
‘
I am one of the Western leaders
…’ Owen,
In Sickness
, p. 265
The message from Manning was
… Chilcot, Manning, p. 130
so long as Bush
… Chilcot, Boyce
‘
Leaving Iraq to develop
…’
The Times
, 6 April 2002
had pledged ‘in blood
’ Blair, p. 400
‘
I knew Bush had not decided
’ Blair, p. 405
‘
You know, George
…’ Rawnsley,
End of the Party
, p. 99
‘
the intelligence and facts
…’ Dannat,
Sunday Times
, 1 May 2005
‘
It’s worse than you think
…’ ibid.;
New York Review of Books
, 9 June 2005
‘
Hussein is still
trying …’ House of Commons, 18 March 2003
‘
Even the Commons Defence Committee
…’ ibid., HC 93-1, 15 May 2003