by Tom Bower
‘The Kosovo conflict …’ Blair, p. 227
CHAPTER 12
‘TB seemed lost …’ Campbell, Power and Responsibility, p. 107
‘I love aspiration …’ Blair, p. 115
‘Coming here reminds me …’ The Times, 28 January 2005
‘We live in a new age …’ Blair, p. 570
Blair was modernising … Campbell, Power and Responsibility, p. 119
‘turning point …’ The Times, 18 November 1999
‘cynicism was dreadful …’ Blair, p. 254; Seldon and Kavanagh, p. 17; Campbell, Power and Responsibility, pp. 112, 116, 278
‘sinecure cynics who …’ Blair, p. 301
CHAPTER 13
In hindsight, he blamed … Blair, p. 263
‘It wasn’t significant for Blair …’ Dobson, interview with author
‘I returned to find a burning …’ Milburn, interview with author
‘since 1997 the service had recruited …’ Bower, Gordon Brown, p. 334
Pushing one button … Anderson, interview with author
Labour’s partisan opposition … Blair, ‘Antagonism of Choice’, speech to Labour Party conference, September 2003
‘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
‘It was the most important battle …’ Powell, p. 111
‘always more money’ Campbell, Power and Responsibility, p. 211
‘overenthusiastic briefing’ The Times, 22 January 2000
‘We’re putting money in …’ Le Grand and Milburn, interviews with author
‘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
‘all part of an effort …’ Campbell, Power and Responsibility, pp. 274–5
‘he wasn’t believed …’ The Times, 17 July 2000
‘Yes, Labour’s love affair …’ ibid., 15 June 2000
Later, in a memorandum to … ibid., 17 July 2000
‘were too late …’ ibid., 19 July 2000
‘the headlines were dominated …’ webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20050302192710/number10.gov.uk/page1523
‘redesign the NHS …’ Milburn, interview with author
CHAPTER 14
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
Blair was persuaded … Ward, interview with author
edicts from departments … Powell, p. 180
CHAPTER 15
‘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
‘The old approach …’ Spencer, interview with author; Spencer, ‘Immigration’, in Seldon, Blair’s Britain 1997–2007 (Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 347–9
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
Nevertheless, at his Boxing Day party … Campbell, Blair Years, pp. 448, 518; Power and Responsibility, pp. 286, 572
To build new centres for 40,000 … The Times, 19 May 2001
‘RC had definitely …’ Campbell, Power and Responsibility, pp. 580, 582, 617
‘would fuel rather than …’ Mandelson, p. 331
Unlimited immigration was acceptable … Campbell, Blair Years, pp. 518–9; Power and Responsibility, pp. 572, 575
CHAPTER 16
‘big leap’ The Times, 8 December 1999
England’s eleven-year-olds … Barber, pp. 39, 44, 185
‘In just over two years …’ ibid., pp. 34–5; Ofsted, ‘National Literacy and Numeracy Strategy 1998–2002’, p. 6
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
Two years after the 424 condemned … Leo et al., Academies and Educational Reform (Multilingual Matters, 2010), p. 33; Morris, The Times, 20 May 2000
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
CHAPTER 17
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
‘You are not focusing …’ Seldon, Blair, p. 135
CHAPTER 18
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 public’s confidence … Anderson report, ‘Foot and Mouth Disease 2001: Lessons to Be Learned’, p. xiv
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
Millar sent a ‘vile’ email … Mail on Sunday, 14 June 2003
Blair lacked the imagination … Blair, p. 340
CHAPTER 19
‘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)
Blunkett failed to get to grips … Pollard, David Blunkett, pp. 253–8; Blunkett, Walker, Boys-Smith, interviews with author
CHAPTER 20
‘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
‘coherence at the centre of government’ ibid., p. 113
CHAPTER 21
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
Mulgan was asked to produce … Mulgan, ‘Life After Politics: New Thinking for a New Century’, p. x, quoting Finlayson, p.124
‘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
CHAPTER 22
‘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
‘succeeded in destroying …’ Lord Butler, ‘Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction’, paras 171, 181, 200
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
Bush had received a memo … US National Archive EBB No. 326, citing John Prados, ‘The Iraq War – Part 2: Was There Ever a Decision?’
‘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
&n
bsp; ‘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
‘I have no war plans on my desk’ Woodward, Plan of Attack, p. 129; Boulton, Blair Administration, p. 118
so long as Bush … Chilcot, Boyce
‘Leaving Iraq to develop …’ The Times, 6 April 2002
‘he had decided to join Bush …’ Owen, In Sickness, p. 275; Chilcot, ‘Conditions for Military Action’, 21 July 2002
had pledged ‘in blood’ Blair, p. 400
‘The shutters are firmly down’ Tebbit, interview with author; Chilcot, Wilson, 4 December 2009, pp. 8–9
‘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
‘I was taken aback …’ Chilcot, Wilson, 25 January 2011
CHAPTER 23
‘We’re going to be tougher’ Boys-Smith, interview with author
‘become more integrated …’ Independent, 9 December 2001
The headlines dismayed Blair. Boys-Smith, interview with author
‘Tony ignores the fact that …’ Seldon, Blair, p. 635
‘You could be reducing …’ The Times, 2 April 2002