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A JOURNEY

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by Blair, Tony


  Dalyell, Tam (I)

  Dannatt, General Sir Richard (I)

  Darling, Alistair (I), (II)

  Darroch, Kim (I)

  Darzi, Lord Ara (I)

  Davies, Gavyn (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI)

  Davies, Ron (I)

  Davis, David (I)

  Dayton Agreement (1995) (I)

  de Brún, Bairbre (I)

  de Chastelain, General John (I)

  Delivery Unit (I), (II)

  Democratic Unionist Party (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI); see also Paisley, Ian

  Denham, John (I)

  Department for Constitutional Affairs (I), (II), (III)

  Department for International Development (I)

  devolution see Scottish Parliament

  Dewar, Donald (I), (II); death and funeral (I)

  Diana, Princess (I), (II), (III), (IV); death and funeral (I), (II), (III), (IV); anniversary service (I)

  Diego Garcia (I)

  Dimbleby, Jonathan (I)

  Dispatches (I)

  DNA database (I)

  Dobson, Frank (I); runs for London Mayor (I), (II), (III), (IV)

  Dobson, Janet (I)

  Dole, Bob (I)

  Doncaster Academy (I)

  Dorset South constituency (I)

  Dove, James (I)

  Downing Street: No. 10 (I), (II), (III), (IV); Cabinet Room 16; flat in No. 11 (I) (II)

  Drake, Jeannie (I)

  drinking laws (I)

  Driver, Screwy (I)

  Dromey, Jack (I), (II)

  drug dealers (I)

  Drumcree, Northern Ireland (I)

  Duelfer, Charles (I), (II)

  Duisenberg, Wim (I)

  Dunblane massacre (1996) (I)

  DUP see Democratic Unionist Party

  Durham Choristers School (I)

  Durkan, Mark (I)

  Dyke, Greg (I), (II), (III)

  EastEnders cast (I)

  Ecclestone, Bernie (I)

  Edinburgh (I); see also Fettes College

  Edinburgh, Duke of see Philip, Prince

  Edmonds, John (I)

  education policies: Conservative (I), (II), (III), (IV); New Labour (I), (II), (III); Sure Start programme (I), (II); literacy and numeracy strategy (I), (II), (III), (IV); see also schools; universities

  Elizabeth II: ‘kisses hands’ with TB (I); and Princess Diana (I); and her death (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI); and Balmoral routine (I); congratulates TB on Good Friday Agreement (I); at Millennium Dome party (I); opens Scottish Parliament building (I); hosts G8 summit (I), (II); and TB’s departure (I), (II)

  Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (I); funeral (I)

  Emanuel, Rahm (I)

  Empey, Reg (I)

  Erdogan, Tayyip (I)

  ERM see Exchange Rate Mechanism

  Errera, Gérard (I)

  Ervine, David (I)

  euro, the (I), (II)

  European Central Bank (I)

  European Convention on Human Rights (I), (II), (III)

  European Councils (I) (2001), (II), (III), (IV) (2003), (V) (2004), (VI) (2005), (VII), (VIII) (2007)

  European Social Chapter (I)

  European Union (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI), (VII); TB’s presidency of (I), (II), (III); common defence policy (I), (II); Constitution referendum (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V); budget rebate negotiations (I), (II), (III), (IV); alliance with US (I), (II)

  Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) (I), (II), (III)

  Fabian Society (I), (II)

  Faith Foundation (I), (II)

  Falconer, Charles: and Mandelson/Robinson ‘scandal’ (I); and Millennium Dome and Eve (I), (II); becomes Lord Chancellor (I), (II); suggests Hutton for Kelly inquiry (I)

  farmers/farming (I), (II), (III); see also foot-and-mouth crisis

  Fathers 4 Justice (I)

  Fayed, Dodi (I), (II), (III), (IV)

  Fellowes, Robert (I), (II)

  Ferguson, Alex (I)

  Ferguson, George (I)

  Ferguson, Hannah (I)

  Fettes College, Edinburgh (I), (II), (III), (IV)

  Field, Frank (I), (II)

  Fiennes, Ralph (I)

  film industry, British (I)

  financial scandals (I); see also ‘cash for honours’ scandal

  Flanagan, Ronnie, Chief Constable (I)

  Flassan, Provence (I)

  flu epidemics (I); avian (I)

  Foot, Michael (I), (II), (III)

  foot-and-mouth crisis (I), (II), (III)

  Foreign Affairs Committee (I), (II)

  Foreign Office: and international aid (I); and Mo Mowlam (I)

  Forsyth, Justin (I)

  Foster, Peter (I), (II)

  Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone (I)

  Fox, Liam (I)

  Fox, Vicente, President of Mexico (I)

  fox hunting (I), (II)

  France: TB’s holidays in (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI), (VII); fuel protests (I), (II); and Iraq (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI), (VII); and EU Constitution (I), (II), (III), (IV); and CAP (I), (II); see also Chirac, Jacques; Sarkozy, Nicolas

  Free and Bad Company (I)

  Freedom of Information Act (I), (II)

  Freud, David (I), (II)

  Frost, David (I), (II)

  FSR see Fundamental Savings Review

  fuel-duty protests (I), (II)

  Fundamental Savings Review (FSR) (I), (II), (III)

  al-Gaddafi, Muammar (I), (II)

  Gallop, Bev (I)

  Gallop, Geoff (I), (II), (III), (IV)

  Gammell, Bill (I)

  Garner, General Jay (I)

  Garrett, Lesley (I)

  Garvey, Kate (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V)

  Gates, Bill (I), (II)

  Gates, Bob (I)

  Gaulle, Charles de (I)

  gay rights (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI), (VII), (VIII), (IX)

  Gaza (I), (II), (III)

  GCHQ: and union rights (I)

  G8 meetings (I), (II), (III); Birmingham (1998) (I), (II), (III); Genoa (2001) (I), (II), (III); Kananaskis (2002) (I); Sea Island (2004) (I), (II); Gleneagles (2005) see Gleneagles; St Petersburg (2006) (I); Heiligendamm (2007) (I), (II)

  Geldof, Bob (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI)

  general elections: 1983 (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V); 1987 (I), (II); 1992 (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI), (VII); 1997 (I), (II); 2001 (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI), (VII), (VIII); 2005 (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI), (VII), (VIII); 2010 (I), (II)

  George V (I)

  Gergiev, Valery (I)

  Germany (I); banks (I); and Kosovo (I), (II); and Iraq (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V); and EU Constitution (I), (II), (III); and Turkey (I); see also Berlin Wall, fall of; Merkel, Angela; Kohl, Helmut; Schroeder, Gerhard

  Gibbons, Jo (I), (II)

  Gill, Ben (I)

  Gilligan, Andrew (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI)

  Giuliani, Rudy (I)

  Gladstone, William Ewart (I), (II), (III), (IV)

  Glasgow: Govan district (I)

  Gleneagles, Scotland: G8 summit (2005) (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI), (VII), (VIII), (IX)

  Goldsmith, Peter (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI)

  Goldstein, Baruch (I)

  Good Friday Agreement see Northern Ireland

  Gore, Al (I)

  Gould, Gail see Rebuck, Gail

  Gould, Philip (I), (II), (III), (IV); holidays in France (I); and abandoning of Clause IV (I); polls and focus groups (I), (II), (III); and hunting (I); central to 2005 election (I), (II); at TB/GB meetings (I)

  Grant, Sir John (I)

  Green groups (I), (II)

  Greene, Martha (I)

  Greenstock, Sir Jeremy (I)

  Grice, Andy (I)

  Grocott, Bruce (I), (II), (III), (IV)

  Gross, Kate (I)

  Guantánamo Bay (I)

  Guardian (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V)

  Gül, Abdullah (I)

  Gulf War (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI)
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  guns, ban on (I)

  Guthrie, General Sir Charles (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI)

  Hague, William (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI), (VII)

  Hain, Peter (I), (II), (III)

  Halabja massacre (1988) (I)

  Haldane Society (I)

  Halifax, Lord (I), (II)

  Hamas (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI)

  Hammond, Sir Anthony (I)

  Hannie, George (I)

  Hannigan, Robert (I)

  Hanson, David (I)

  Hardie, James Keir (I)

  Hariri, Rafiq (I)

  Harman, Harriet: sends child to grammar school (I), (II); and pensions policy (I), (II); and ‘cash for honours’ scandal (I); wins deputy leadership contest (I)

  Harry, Prince (I), (II)

  Hatfield rail crash (2000) (I)

  Hattersley, Roy (I), (II)

  Haworth, Alan (I)

  Hayman, Helene (I)

  Healey, Denis (I), (II), (III)

  health policies see National Health Service

  Heath, Edward (I)

  Heathrow: and security (I)

  Hebron, Palestine: Ibrahimi Mosque (I)

  Henman, Tim (I)

  Hermon, Sylvia (I)

  Heseltine, Michael (I), (II), (III)

  Hewitt, Patricia (I), (II)

  Heywood, Jeremy (I)

  Hezbollah (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI)

  Hill, David (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI)

  Hill, Keith (I)

  Hill, Robert (I), (II)

  Hills, John (I)

  Hillsborough, Northern Ireland (I)

  Hinduja brothers (I)

  Hitler, Adolf (I), (II), (III), (IV)

  Hizb ut-Tahrir (political party) (I)

  Hoffmann, Lord (I)

  Holbrooke, Richard (I)

  Holmes, John (I), (II)

  Home Office, reorganisation of (I), (II), (III)

  Hong Kong (I), (II)

  Hoon, Geoff (I), (II), (III), (IV)

  hospital waiting times see National Health Service

  House of Lords (I), (II); and Scottish devolution (I), (II); ruling on anti-terror laws (I); reform (I), (II); see also ‘cash for honours’ scandal

  housing benefit (I)

  Howard, John (I)

  Howard, Michael (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI), (VII), (VIII)

  Howard, Nicholas (I)

  Hu Jintao, President of China (I), (II)

  Huckfield, Les (I), (II)

  Hucknall, Mick (I)

  Human Rights Act (I)

  Human Rights Watch (I), (II)

  Hume, John (I), (II)

  Hunter, Anji (I), (II); advises TB not to go to Millbank with GB (I); and Labour leadership contest (I); at ‘away day’ meetings (I); and abandoning of Clause IV (I); disapproved of by Butler (I); cuts official dinners from TB’s schedule (I); and Princess Diana’s funeral (I); ignores ‘conspiracies’ (I); and Dobson as London Mayor (I); her optimism (I); overburdened by TB (I); organises inappropriate school visit for TB (I); and JP punching incident (I); wants to leave (I), (II); told of TB’s departure (I)

  Hunter, Sarah (I)

  hunting (I), (II)

  Hussein, Saddam: Western arming of (I), (II); and Western sanctions (I), (II), (III); and Iran–Iraq War (I), (II), (III); numbers killed by (I), (II), (III), (IV); and WMD inspections (I); and oil-for-food programme (I); obstruction of weapons inspectors and military strike against (1998) (I), (II), (III), (IV); new sanctions against (I); after 9/11 (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V); sponsorship of terrorism (I); opposes Saudi peace initiative (I); reasons for his removal (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI), (VII); ‘dossier’ on WMDs (I), (II), (III), (IV); and al-Qaeda (I), (II), (III), (IV); non-compliance with UN Resolutions (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI), (VII); US/UK plans to remove (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V); Blix Reports on (I), (II), (III); TB’s conclusions about (I), (II), (III); further breaches of UN Resolutions (I), (II), (III), (IV); his continued non-cooperation (I); and TB’s attempts to get second Resolution against (I); TB’s case for war against (I); and mining of oilfields (I), (II), (III); initial action against (I); regime collapses (I), (II), (III); statue toppled (I)

  Hutton, Lord (Brian) (I), (II); Inquiry and Report (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI), (VII), (VIII)

  Hutton, John (I), (II), (III), (IV)

  Hyman, Peter (I), (II), (III)

  IAEA see International Atomic Energy Agency

  identity (ID) cards (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI), (VII), (VIII)

  IICD see Independent International Commission on Decommissioning

  immigration (I), (II), (III), (IV); see also asylum-seekers

  incapacity benefit (I), (II), (III)

  Independent (I)

  Independent International Commission on Decommissioning (IICD) (I), (II), (III)

  India (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI), (VII), (VIII), (IX), (X), (XI), (XII), (XIII); see also Kashmir

  inner city regeneration (I), (II)

  INSEAD, Fontainebleau (I)

  Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) (I)

  International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (I), (II), (III), (IV)

  International Marxist Group (I)

  International Olympic Committee (IOC) (I); Singapore Session (2005) (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI), (VII)

  International Red Cross (I)

  International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) (I)

  IOC see International Olympic Committee

  IRA (I); ceasefire (I); peace negotiations with Major (I), (II), (III); further killings (I), (II), (III); relationship with Sinn Fein (I), (II); raison d’être removed by power-sharing (I), (II); and decommissioning of weapons (I), (II), (III), (IV); prisoners released (I), (II); and removal of British Army watchtowers (I)

  Iran: Revolution (1979) (I); war with Iraq (1980) (I), (II), (III), (IV); Shia/Sunni divide (I), (II); Western attitudes towards (I), (II), (III); and overtures from TB (I); and al-Qaeda (I), (II); interference in Iraq post-2003 (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V); nuclear programme negotiations (I); arrest of Royal Navy personnel (2007) (I); and overtures from Obama (I); as nuclear threat (I), (II)

  Iraq: under Saddam Hussein (q.v.) (I), (II); war with Iran see Iran; US air strikes (1998) (I), (II), (III); war (2003) see Iraq War; postwar sectarianism and terrorism (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI); and US and British troops (I), (II), (III), (IV); British casualties (I), (II), (III), (IV); Iraqi casualties (I); creation of Iraqi Army (I), (II), (III); elections (I), (II); and weakening of al-Qaeda (I)

  Iraq Body Count (I), (II), (III)

  Iraq Security Forces (ISF) (I), (II), (III)

  Iraq Survey Group (ISG) Report (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V)

  Iraq War (I), (II); reasons for (I), (II), (III); see also Hussein, Saddam; build-up to (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI); London protest march against (I), (II); and Labour/Lib Dem relations (I), (II); international attitudes to (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V); House of Commons debate and vote on (I), (II); and security of oilfields (I), (II), (III), (IV); TB’s statements to the House (I); and need for UN involvement (I), (II), (III), (IV); victory (I), (II); casualties (I), (II), (III); TB addresses Houses of Congress on (I); and lack of postwar planning and reconstruction (I), (II), (III), (IV); and Attorney General’s advice (I); damage to Labour Party (I), (II); and moral questions (I), (II), (III); and TB’s feelings of responsibility (I); see also Butler, Chilcot and Hutton Inquiry

 

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