by Tom Bower
briefs TB and presses him for decisiveness, 1;
warns about lack of post-war planning, 1, 2;
demands assurance war would be legal, 1;
and war briefings, 1, 2;
announces war officially over, 1;
on Short and aid work in Iraq, 1
Boys-Smith, Stephen: Straw urges to do better with asylum-seekers, 1, 2; meets with TB to discuss asylum-seekers, 1;
works with Roche, 1, 2;
on Straw, 1;
welcomes tolerant immigration policy, 1;
grants Somalians exceptional leave to remain, 1;
on New Labour immigration policy, 1;
improves decision-making process, 1;
relationship with Blunkett, 1;
on benefit voucher system, 1;
replaced by Jeffrey, 1;
on second Iraq dossier, 1;
work in Northern Ireland, 1
BP, 1, 2
Bradford Royal Infirmary, 1
Branson, Richard, 1, 2, 3
Brazil, 1
Bremer, Paul, 1, 2, 3, 4
Bremner, Rory, 1
Bright, Martin, 1
Brin, Sergey, 1
Bristol Royal Infirmary, 1
British Aerospace, 1
British army: in Kosovo, 1, 2; in Sierra Leone and East Timor, 1;
lack of proper funding for Iraq war, 1, 2;
lack of experience for Iraq war, 1;
pushes for full involvement, 1, 2;
invasion performance, 1;
plight in Iraq in aftermath of war, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
more funding reluctantly released by Brown, 1;
military police murdered, 1;
administrative muddle in British chain of command, 1;
calibre of officers in Iraq, 1;
TB pledges to send more troops to Afghanistan, 1, 2, 3;
Allied Rapid Reaction Corps, 1, 2, 3;
growing chaos round Basra, 1;
withdrawal from Iraq starts to be considered, 1;
Afghanistan deployment goes ahead, 1;
desires to leave Iraq, 1;
helicopter shot down in Basra, 1;
extension of Afghanistan mission to Sangin proves disastrous, 1;
escalation and mission creep in Afghanistan and Iraq, 1, 2;
and NHS medical treatment, 1;
lack of proper funding and equipment, 1;
see also SAS
British Energy, 1
British Gas, 1, 2
British Medical Association (BMA): TB under fire from, 1; obstruction to change, 1;
and NHS Plan 2000, 1;
negotiations over consultant pay and conditions, 1, 2;
GP pay and conditions, 1;
negotiates yet better pay, 1;
hatred of the market, 1;
new system for assigning junior doctors to consultants, 1
Bromley, Princess Royal University Hospital, 1, 2
Brooks, Rebekah, 1
Brown, Gordon: character, 1, 2, 3; books about, 1, 2, 3;
attitude to Smith, 1;
appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1;
TB’s role in economic affairs, 1;
attitude to health expenditure, 1;
relationship with TB, 1, 2, 3, 4;
and Robinson, 1;
flat swap with Blairs, 1;
and Ecclestone scandal, 1, 2;
worsening relations with Mandelson, 1;
and Robinson scandal, 1;
Routledge’s biography appears, 1;
conviction should have been PM, 1;
and defence policy, 1;
and energy policy, 1, 2;
desire for revenge on Mandelson, 1;
and immigration policy, 1;
attitude to prison policy, 1;
introduces tax credits, 1;
appears to inject yet more cash into NHS, 1;
pushes PFI deals for hospitals, 1;
protects Robinson, 1;
continuing belief in NHS monopoly, 1;
his goals for the government, 1;
role in Mandelson’s resignation irreparably damages relationship with TB, 1;
gets involved in education policy, 1;
personal agenda of redistribution, 1;
and Kosovo intervention, 1, 2, 3;
refuses to discuss Budget, 1;
and forces of conservatism speech, 1;
advice to Milburn about health policy, 1;
refuses more money for NHS, 1;
cancels Third World debt, 1;
popularity, 1;
TB tries to force to hand over NHS money, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Bremner’s portrayal, 1;
divisiveness of his policy preferences, 1;
and climate change, 1;
considers Post Office privatisation, 1;
reluctantly agrees to abandon petrol tax increase, 1;
attitude to immigration, 1, 2, 3;
underfunding of MoD, 1;
Robinson praises, 1;
more arguments with TB, 1,
TB’s need for, 1;
refuses to allocate money for foot-and-mouth epidemic, 1;
another row with TB, 1;
TB retreats from sending to Foreign Office, 1;
still refusing more NHS money, 1, 2, 3;
TB decides to stand firm against his demand for TB’s resignation, 1;
commitment to tax credits, 1;
backstabbing, 1;
involvement in education programmes, 1;
TB attempts to discuss 9/11 with, 1;
and Iraq war, 1, 2;
grudgingly funds immigrant detention centres, 1;
more fights with TB, over NHS and succession in particular, 1;
relationship with Milburn, 1, 2, 3;
marriage, and death of newborn daughter, 1;
finally agrees to extra NHS cash, 1, 2;
2002 Budget breaks own golden rules, 1;
opposes Milburn’s NHS reorganisation, 1;
economic forecasts proved wrong, 1;
Iraq war as means for TB to win out over, 1;
refuses more money for the military in run-up to Iraq war, 1, 2;
attacks TB at 2002 party conference, 1;
obstructs TB’s nuclear power plans, 1;
poor value of redistributive efforts 1;
supports part privatisation of London Underground, 1;
Blunkett and Milburn try to persuade TB to sack, 1;
relationship with CB, 1;
TB again retreats from sacking, 1;
allocates funds for Iraq invasion, 1;
to be excluded from war plans, 1;
Cabinet attitude to, 1;
support for Iraq war, 1;
goes on attack again against TB, 1, 2;
2003 Budget breaks golden rules again, 1;
another NHS row, 1;
as protector of NHS spending, 1;
opposes introducing the market into NHS, 1;
Milburn sacrificed to TB’s need for, 1;
Reid’s attitude to, 1, 2;
TB’s fear of continues to affect health policy, 1;
TB quashes his querying of education expenditure, 1, 2;
Powell on his ambition to be PM, 1;
blocks funds for army in Iraq, 1;
argues with TB over British membership of euro, 1;
tentative handover deal done with TB, 1;
TB reneges on deal, 1;
reluctantly releases more military funding, 1;
triumphant 2004 Budget, 1;
again presses TB to resign, 1, 2;
row over energy policy, 1, 2;
TB announces will serve full third term, 1;
constant self-promotion, 1;
TB moves against, with predictable results, 1;
Peston’s supportive book, 1;
made election supremo, 1;
his effect on the economy and industry, 1;
and Rover, 1;
TB again toys with idea of sacking, 1;
opposes TB’s proposed health changes, 1;
worsening public finances, 1;
more involvement in health policy, 1;
more arguments over TB’s length of tenure and succession, 1;
row with TB over economy and pensions, 1;
agrees to fund Afghanistan mission, 1;
snap pledge to increase funding for state schools, 1;
again attacking TB, 1;
TB attempts to make him more New Labour, 1, 2;
encourages BNF’s sale of stake in Westinghouse Electric Company, 1;
TB wants to win over to nuclear power, 1;
again refuses additional military funding, 1, 2;
finally gets departure date from TB, 1;
popular lack of support, 1;
at 2006 party conference, 1;
TB’s attitude to him as successor, 1;
rejects New Labour brand, 1;
helps TB exit gracefully, 1;
still opposes TB’s education policies, 1;
2007 Budget, 1;
performance as Chancellor assessed, 1;
assures self of succession, 1;
congratulates TB at his last Cabinet meeting, 1;
as PM, 1, 2, 3;
TB writes about in memoirs, 1;
and Chilcot inquiry, 1
Brown, Professor Margaret, 1, 2, 3, 4
Brown, Nick, 1, 2, 3
Brown, Sarah (née Macaulay), 1
Browne, Des: appointed immigration minister, 1; and immigration policy, 1;
appointed defence secretary, 1;
and expansion of Afghanistan mission, 1, 2, 3, 4;
and Iraq, 1, 2;
unable to push successfully for more military funding, 1;
discusses Dannatt insurrection with TB, 1
Browne, John, 1
Buckley, Edgar, 1
Buhari, President Muhammadu, 1, 2
Bulgarian immigrants, 1
Burns, Terry, 1, 2, 3, 4
Burridge, Air Marshal Brian, 1, 2
Bush, George W.: meets TB, 1; discussions with TB in immediate wake of 9/11, 1;
‘axis of evil’ speech, 1, 2;
tries to raise support for Iraq war, 1;
TB in constant contact with, 1;
commitment to regime change, 1;
TB meets to discuss Iraq, 1;
TB’s unconditional guarantees to, 1, 2, 3;
TB fails to persuade to go UN route, 1;
calls on Saddam to surrender WMDs, 1;
takes final decision to invade Iraq, 1;
relationship with TB changes, 1;
endorses Ulster peace plans, 1;
TB dines with, 1;
initiates report into US intelligence agencies’ errors over WMDs, 1;
at G8 Gleneagles summit, 1;
TB’s subservient relationship with, 1;
video conference with TB to discuss Iraq, 1;
‘Yo, Blair’ greeting, 1;
rejects TB’s offer to act as Rice’s advance man in Middle East, 1;
TB fails to influence on Middle East peace plan, 1, 2;
TB’s public farewell, 1;
helps TB get job as Quartet envoy, 1
Butler, Brigadier Ed, 1, 2, 3, 4
Butler, Robin: character, 1; inquiries into Hamilton’s and Aitken’s probity, 1;
first encounters with TB, 1, 2, 3, 4;
on immigration, 1;
selection of successor, 1;
clash with Blunkett, 1;
and CB, 1;
on Dearlove, 1;
on protocol for prime ministerial meetings with MI6, 1;
on TB’s character, 1
Butler inquiry and report, 1, 2, 3, 4
Byers, Stephen: appointed trade and industry secretary, 1; and trade and industry policy, 1;
approves Desmond’s takeover of Express, 1;
loyalty to TB, 1;
appoints administrators for Railtrack, 1;
accused of misleading House of Commons, 1;
criticises Brown at TB’s behest, 1
Cabinet: TB’s style for meetings, 1, 2, 3, 4; ignorance of full Iraq situation, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
Boyce addresses on extent of UK involvement in Iraq invasion, 1;
told troops are to go to Middle East, 1;
level of support for Iraq war, 1;
given précis only of Goldsmith’s opinion of legality of war, 1;
shackled by TB, 1;
committee to discuss health, 1;
discusses Afghanistan mission, 1, 2;
TB’s last meeting, 1;
advance knowledge of Iraq war queried by Chilcot inquiry, 1
Calais see Sangatte refugee camp
Callaghan, James, 1, 2
Camarano, Erik, 1
Cameron, David: and Hutton report, 1; takes over leadership of Tories, 1;
asks TB if backs Brown as successor, 1;
and TB’s farewell to Commons, 1;
and Rwanda, 1;
and Libya, 1;
TB asks for help to become EU president, 1;
TB encourages to visit Kazakhstan, 1;
and Vietnam, 1;
and Nigeria, 1
Campbell, Alastair: background and character, 1; diaries, 1;
author’s attitude to, 1;
appointed by TB, 1;
on Butler, 1;
role on TB’s staff, 1;
on Wilson, 1;
importance to TB, 1, 2;
attitude to Mandelson, 1;
and Diana’s death, 1;
takes TB’s side in row with CB over Hunter, 1;
and TB’s European single currency policy, 1;
and Ecclestone scandal, 1, 2, 3, 4;
working methods and loyalties, 1;
Mandelson on, 1;
and SAS killing of Serbian warlord, 1;
and defence and foreign policy, 1, 2;
on TB on world stage, 1;
and Robinson scandal, 1;
and TB–Brown relationship, 1;
promotes Mandelson’s trade and industry strategy, 1;
and immigration policy, 1;
defends Robinson, 1;
blamed by Mandelson for his first resignation, 1;
Mandelson’s resignation increases his importance, 1;
and TB’s first reshuffle, 1;
criticised by Mandelson for spin re. government’s perceived elitism, 1;
spin on TB’s foreign policy, 1;
on Guthrie, 1;
and Kosovo intervention, 1, 2, 3, 4;
advises Shea on managing media, 1;
helps with forces of conservatism speech, 1;
attacks Winston for criticism of NHS, 1;
Bremner’s portrayal, 1;
and health policy, 1;
authorises Cockerell film, 1;
and fuel-delivery lorry drivers’ protest, 1;
and education policy, 1, 2;
argument about TB’s staff provokes him to threaten to resign, 1;
and Hinduja affair, 1, 2;
encourages TB to befriend Desmond, 1, 2;
and 2001 election, 1;
on Morris, 1;
on Boyce, 1;
and Iraq war, 1, 2, 3;
tries to reconcile TB and Brown, 1;
and Mittal donation, 1;
support for Moore, 1;
and foundation hospitals, 1;
urges Morris not to resign, 1;
and first Iraq dossier, 1, 2, 3, 4;
and foot-and-mouth report, 1;
defends CB to media, 1;
and Caplin, 1;
relationship with CB, 1;
advises TB re. Iraq invasion, 1;
on TB’s exposure, 1;
Boyce on, 1;
supervises second Iraq dossier, 1;
warns TB off discussing religion, 1;
impatience with progress of Iraq war, 1;
threatens to resign, 1, 2;
shores up TB’s reputation in wake of lack of WMDs in Iraq,
1;
on Rumsfeld, 1;
Gilligan–Kelly affair, 1;
leaves Downing Street, 1;
and Hutton report, 1, 2, 3, 4;
exonerated by Taylor, 1;
advises TB to resign, 1;
and Butler inquiry and report, 1;
and 2005 election, 1;
warns TB party support for him waning, 1;
helps TB with his commercial work, 1, 2;
promotes Nazarbayev, 1
Campbell-Bannerman, Henry, 1
cancer, 1, 2, 3, 4
Caplin, Carole, 1, 2, 3, 4
car industry, 1, 2, 3
carbon emissions, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
carbon trading, 1, 2
Care Quality Commission, 1, 2
Carey, George, 1
Carruthers, Ian, 1
Casey, General George, 1
Cassen, Professor Robert, 1, 2
cataracts, 1, 2
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, 1
Cavanagh, Matt, 1, 2, 3, 4
Chakrabarti, Suma, 1
Chamberlain, Neville, 1
Chaplin, Edward, 1
Charles, Prince of Wales, 1, 2
Chartres, Richard, 1, 2
Cheney, Dick, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Chilcot, John, 1, 2
Chilcot inquiry, 1, 2
Chilcott, Dominic, 1
China, 1
Chirac, Jacques: and Kosovo, 1, 2, 3; and Iraq war, 1, 2;
TB rejects invitation to meet, 1
Chisholm, John, 1
Churchill, Winston, 1
CIA: and Iraq, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; and Libya, 1;
Senate Intelligence Committee report on WMDs, 1
Civil Partnership Act (2004), 1
civil service: New Labour’s relationship with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; selection of Butler’s successor, 1;
calibre in MoD, 1, 2;
importance to TB’s government, 1;
TB introduces new units to manage and modernise, 1;
calibre at Foreign Office, 1;
Turnbull’s changed role as Cabinet secretary, 1;
performance and rewards, 1;
at Home Office, 1;
changing standards, 1
Clark, Alan, 1
Clark, David, 1
Clarke, Charles: character, 1; on TB as judge of character, 1;
moves to Home Office, 1;
on Brown, 1;
on Roche, 1;
on TB’s fears of losing 2001 election, 1;
appointed education secretary, 1;
and education policy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
urges TB to fight over tuition fees, 1, 2;