Summary
TONY BLAIR has a bad habit. He often says something that he knows is not true, and he could not possibly have meant. Before the 1997 election he promised that New Labour would be "purer than pure". He boasted of his affection for the pound and declared that would never put up taxes. Then there was the bold pledge in the 2001 manifesto that Labour would never introduce university tuition fees, and those repeated assertions about weapons of mass destruction.
There was another example earlier this year when the Prime Minister made a speech praising the civil service for "knowing the difference between obeying legitimate political orders and impropriety." As with all the other cases, it is easy to see why Blair uttered the words: they sounded good, it was the right thing to say, and it made him appear a man of integrity.See the full content of this document
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Time for Blair to Say What He Means
But he couldn't have meant a word of it. If he had, he would already have let David Blunkett go, and never have publ icly backed him. The Blunkett problem is emphatically not, as his supporters assert, about his very muddled and upsetting private life. It is about whether he has conducted himself in the way a Home Secretary shoul...
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