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39. A. Campbell, p. 569
40. Interview, Stan Greenberg
41. Interview, Tom Kelly
42. Tony Blair, speech, ‘Doctrine of the International Community’, Chicago, 22 April 1999
43. Interview, Tony Blair
44. Tony Blair, conference speech, Brighton, 2 October 2001
45. Conversation, Tony Blair
46. Tony Blair, conference speech, Brighton, 2 October 2001
47. Interview, Clare Short
48. Tony Blair, conference speech, Brighton, 2 October 2001
49. Conversation, Cabinet minister
50. Daily Telegraph, 3 October 2001
51. Andrew Rawnsley, ‘Missionary Tony and his Holy British Empire’, Observer, 7 October 2001
52. Interview, Christopher Meyer
53. A. Campbell, p. 576
54. Interview, Tom Kelly
55. Interview, Tom Kelly
56. Conversation, Blair aide
57. Interview, Jonathan Powell
58. Tony Blair, statement on military action in Afghanistan, Downing Street, 7 October 2001
59. Interview, Richard Haas
60. Interview, David Manning
61. Interview, Condoleezza Rice
62. Interview, Andrew Card
63. Conversation, Blair aide
64. Interview, David Manning
65. Riddell (2003), p. 161
66. Interview, Tom Kelly
67. A. Campbell, p. 585
68. Conversation, Cabinet minister
69. Conversations, Cabinet ministers and officials
70. 82 per cent of Americans had a favourable view of Blair according to Gallup in mid-October 2001. Just 7 per cent viewed him negatively
71. Interview, Clare Short
72. Riddell (2003), p. 167
73. Interview, member of War Cabinet
74. Interviews, members of War Cabinet
75. Interview, member of War Cabinet
76. Interview, Geoff Hoon
77. Interview, Jack Straw
78. Interview, David Manning
79. Interview, senior military officer
80. A. Campbell, p. 581
81. Interview, Tom Kelly
82. Interview, Michael Boyce
83. Interview, David Manning
84. Blair–Bush news conference, White House, Washington, 8 November 2001
85. Interview, David Manning
86. Hansard, 14 November 2001
87. Interview, Michael Boyce
88. Private information
89. Frum, p. 194
90. Hansard, 14 November 2001
91. Interview, Tom Kelly
92. Interview, Tom Kelly
93. Interviews, Tom Kelly and David Manning
94. Interviews, Tom Kelly and David Manning
95. Interview, Christopher Meyer
96. Woodward (2002), p. 310
97. Interview, Jonathan Powell
98. Interview, Michael Boyce
99. Interview, David Manning
100. Interview, Michael Boyce
101. Interview, Mike Jackson
102. Interview, Michael Boyce
4. The TB-GBs
1. Interview, Barry Cox
2. Interview, Barry Cox
3. Interview, Barry Cox
4. Conversation, Cabinet minister
5. Conversation, Cabinet minister
6. Conversation, Cabinet minister
7. Interview, Stephen Wall
8. Interview, senior civil servant
9. Interview, Cabinet minister
10. Conversation, media executive
11. Interview, Charlie Falconer
12. Interview, Clare Short
13. Interview, Jack Straw
14. Interview, Bruce Grocott
15. Prescott, p. 311
16. Interview, Peter Hyman
17. Interview, Margaret Jay
18. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
19. J. Campbell, p. 346
20. Servants of the People, p. 146
21. Interview, senior civil servant
22. Interview, Richard Wilson
23. Interview, Murray Elder
24. Today, BBC Radio 4, 26 September 2006
25. Interview, Nick Ryden
26. Interview, Nick Ryden. He has never forgiven himself for erasing the tape of this priceless moment
27. A Week in Politics, Channel 4, 17 May 1994
28. Interview, Jon Snow; Bower, p. 153
29. Macintyre, p. 290
30. Interview, Jack Straw
31. Blair, 47 per cent; Prescott, 15 per cent; Brown, 11 per cent; Beckett, 5 per cent; Cook, 3 per cent; Don’t Know, 19 per cent: Gallup for BBC1’s On the Record, 30 May 1994
32. C. Blair, p. 172
33. Interview, Philip Gould
34. Interview, Derek Draper
35. Interview, Neil Kinnock
36. Interview, Nick Brown
37. Interview, Roy Hattersley
38. Interview, Barry Cox
39. Peston, p. 59
40. Interview, Richard Wilson
41. Interview, Cabinet minister
42. Servants of the People, p. 144
43. Interview, Nick Ryden
44. Interview, Barry Cox
45. Interviews, Brown inner circle
46. Conversation, New Labour inner circle
47. Interview, Robert Harris
48. Interview, Charles Clarke
49. Interview, Frank Field
50. Interview, Philip Gould
51. That sense of grievance is most explicitly and comprehensively retailed in Routledge (1997)
52. Interview, Brown inner circle
53. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
54. Interview, Margaret Jay
55. Scott, pp. 20, 24
56. Interview, Paddy Ashdown
57. Interview, Charles Guthrie
58. Servants of the People, pp. 144–5
59. Interview, Frank Field
60. Interview, Stephen Wall
61. A. Campbell, p. 312
62. Interview, Roy Jenkins
63. Interview, Cabinet minister
64. Interview, Cabinet minister
65. Interview, Frank Field
66. Interview, Robin Butler
67. Interview, Geoff Hoon
68. Interview, Peter Hyman
69. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
70. Interview, Robin Butler
71. Interview, Richard Wilson
72. Interview, Clare Short
73. Interview, Jack Straw
74. Interview, Estelle Morris
75. Conversation, Blair aide
76. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
77. Conversation, Cabinet minister
78. Interview, Clare Short
79. Conversation, member of Shadow Cabinet
80. Interview, Geoffrey Robinson
81. Interview, Brown aide
82. Interview, Barry Cox
83. Interview, Brown aide
84. Interview, Brown inner circle
85. Interview, Alistair Darling
86. Interview, Blair inner circle
87. Conversation, Cabinet minister
88. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
89. Interview, Cabinet minister
90. Interview, Barry Cox
91. Interview, Stephen Wall
92. Interview, Michael Levy
93. Interview, Alan Milburn
94. Interview, Michael Levy; Levy, p. 212
95. Interview, Alastair Campbell
96. Interview, Barry Cox
97. Interview, Brown aide
98. Interview, Steve Morris
99. Interview, Richard Wilson
100. Interview, Clare Short
101. Interview, Steve Robson
102. Interview, Cabinet minister
103. Interview, John Gieve
104. Interview, Richard Wilson
105. Interview, senior civil servan
t
106. Interview, David Blunkett
107. Interview, Gordon Brown
108. Interview, Andrew Turnbull; Financial Times, 20 March 2007
109. Interview, John Gieve
110. Interview, Estelle Morris
111. Conversation, Cabinet minister
112. Conversation, Cabinet minister
113. By the banker, Sir Derek Wanless
114. Interview, Alan Milburn; A. Campbell, p. 590
115. Interview, Steve Robson
116. Interview, Richard Wilson
117. Interview, Stephen Wall
118. Scott, p. 28
119. Conversation, Blair aide
120. Interviews, Andrew Turnbull and Richard Wilson
121. Conversation, Cabinet minister
122. Interview, Geoffrey Robinson
123. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
124. Interview, senior civil servant
125. Having picked this up, I used the phrase in a column after which it became common currency. Andrew Rawnsley, ‘Loneliness of the long-distance premier’, Observer, 11 November 2001
126. Interview, Peter Hyman
127. Conversation, Cabinet minister
128. Interview, Stephen Wall
129. A. Campbell, p. 602
130. Interviews, Brown inner circle and Cabinet ministers
131. Interview, Stephen Wall
132. Interview, Richard Wilson
133. Interview, Brown inner circle
134. Interview, John Gieve
135. Interview, Brown aide
136. Interview, Brown aide
137. Interview, Jonathan Powell
138. Interview, Brown inner circle
139. Interview, Brown aide
140. Interview, Number 10 official
141. Interview, senior civil servant
142. Interview, senior Blair aide
143. Interview, Cabinet minister
144. Interview, Jonathan Powell
145. Interview, Brown inner circle
146. Interview, Brown inner circle
147. Interview, Brown inner circle
148. Interview, Clare Short
149. Interview, Matthew Taylor
150. Interview, Neil Kinnock
151. Interview, Stephen Wall
152. Interview, Richard Wilson
153. Conversations, Blair aides
154. Interview, Tony Blair
155. Tony Blair, speech at Royal Free Hospital, London, 15 July 2001
156. Conversation, Cabinet minister
157. Interview, Geoff Mulgan
158. Interview, Sally Morgan
159. Interview, Michael Barber
160. Interview, Tony Blair
161. Interview, Tom Kelly
162. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
163. Interview, Alan Milburn
164. The Times, 7 August 2002
165. Interview, Alan Milburn
166. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
167. Interview, Charles Clarke
168. Interview, Brown aide
169. Interview, Cabinet minister
170. Interview, Treasury minister
171. Conversation, Brown inner circle
172. Gordon Brown, remarks to reception for John Smith Foundation, Number 11, 18 July 2002
173. Interview, Brown aide
174. Interview, Brown aide
175. Interview, Robert Hill
176. Conversation, Cabinet minister
177. Interviews, Cabinet ministers
178. Interview, Brown aide
179. Interview, Brown aide
180. As it turned out, the document wasn’t leaked
181. Interviews, Cabinet ministers
182. Tony Blair, speech to Labour conference, Blackpool, 1 October 2002
183. Conversation, Blair aide
184. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
185. Interviews, Cabinet ministers
186. Interview, Cabinet minister
187. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
188. Interview, Alan Milburn
189. Interview, Peter Mandelson
190. Interview, Barry Cox
5. Oath of Allegiance
1. Interviews, Cabinet ministers and officials; Blunkett (2006), p. 359; A. Campbell, pp. 608–9; Cook, pp. 115–16
2. Interview, senior civil servant
3. Interviews, Cabinet ministers and officials; Blunkett (2006), p. 359; A. Campbell, pp. 608–9; Cook, pp. 115–16
4. SECRET. UK EYES ONLY. Iraq: Options Paper. Overseas and Defence Secretariat, Cabinet Office, 8 March 2002. One of several documents originally leaked to the journalist Michael Smith. Read them at www.michaelsmithwriter.com
5. Frum, p. 238
6. George W. Bush, State of the Union address, 30 January 2002
7. ‘An Oral History of the Bush White House’, Vanity Fair, February 2009
8. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
9. Interview, Michael Boyce
10. Interview, Christopher Meyer
11. Interview, William Cohen
12. Interview, William Cohen
13. Frum, pp. 196, 233
14. Interview, Tony Blair
15. Interview, Andrew Card
16. Interview, Christopher Meyer
17. ‘An Oral History of the Bush White House’, Vanity Fair, February 2009
18. Blair–Cheney news conference, Downing Street, 11 March 2002
19. SECRET – STRICTLY PERSONAL. Prime Minister. Your Trip to the US. Memo, Manning to Blair, 14 March 2002
20. CONFIDENTIAL AND PERSONAL. Letter, Meyer to Manning, 18 March 2002
21. Interview, David Manning
22. Ashdown (2002), p. 127
23. Interview, Tony Blair
24. Robert Cooper, Prospect, October 2001
25. Interview, Mike Jackson
26. Interview, Tony Blair
27. Interview, Robert Harris
28. Interviews, senior intelligence officers
29. Interview, Huw Evans
30. Interview, Richard Wilson
31. Interview, member of Joint Intelligence Committee
32. Conversation, Cabinet minister
33. Interview, David Manning
34. Interviews, senior officials
35. Interview, Huw Evans
36. Interview, Ken Livingstone
37. Interview, Huw Evans
38. Tony Blair, speech to TUC, 10 September 2002
39. Interview, Tony Blair
40. Interview, Christopher Meyer