Authors: Tom Bower
Broken Vows (69 page)
Hoon knew that the chiefs
… Hoon, interview with author
General John Reith, responsible for
… Chilcot, Reith
Boyce again told Blair
… Chilcot, Boyce
Hoon’s statement did provoke
… Chilcot, Wall, pp. 88–9
‘
a provocation
’ Butler, interview with author
‘
Can we pull out of the invasion?
…’ Tebbit, interview with author; Hoon, interview with author
‘
The plan was we did not need a plan
…’ Cross,
Sunday Times
, 21 October 2007
To head off an anti-war march
… ISC report, para 130
‘
It was a bad own goal
…’ Campbell,
Blair Years
, p. 664
Manning even deluded himself
… Chilcot, Manning, p. 136
‘
Blair never listened to Chirac
…’ Chilcot, Wall, pp. 54–5
Blair swept his warnings aside
… Seldon,
Blair
, p. 594
‘
Are you sure Saddam has WMDs?
…’ Hoon, interview with author
Without that document
… Chilcot, Boyce
‘
I understand’
Hoon, interview with author
‘
You don’t have to do it
…’ Rawnsley,
End of the Party,
p. 160
‘
I was wrong on every count’
Chilcot, Manning, p. 81
Before Goldsmith returned
… Blair, p. 422
‘
assumed wrongly
’ ibid., p. 436
regarded as his exclusive ‘client
’ Chilcot, Goldsmith
‘
I couldn’t work out
…’ Chilcot, Walker
An ICM opinion poll found that
…
The Times
, 31 March 2003
‘
It does really get to you
…’ Stothard,
30 Days,
p. 189
At the end of the day, he flew
… Campbell,
Burden of Power
, pp. 535–8
After his retirement, Boyce
… House of Lords, 6 November 2009
With exquisite symmetry, Fiona Millar
… Campbell,
Burden of Power,
pp. 541–3
Blair usually anticipated
… Chilcot, Wilson, 25 January 2011
In the tit-for-tat
… Powell, pp. 114, 209
Compared to securing Brown’s
… Campbell,
Burden of Power
, pp. 541–3
Brown had assumed that
… Office of Budget Responsibility, working paper no. 7
Despite the rising bedlam
… Bower,
Gordon Brown
, p. 370
‘
hardship and distress
’ King and Crewe, p. 147
‘
They basically lied to me
…’ ibid., p. 144
‘
Call me Cherie
…’ Campbell,
Power and the People
, p. 506
‘
There’s finally progress
’ Barber, p. 131
‘
They’re tinkering at the edges
…’ Anderson, interview with author
In his distrust of politicians
… Crisp, email to author, 30 March 2015
‘
We must shift from “NHS delivery
” …’ Warner, interview with author
‘
We made a mistake
’ Hutton, interview with author; Rivett, p. 162
Andrew Foster, responsible for
… Foster, interview with author;
Health Service Journal
, 25 March 2010
‘
unproductive interference
…’ Blair speech, 24 February 2004
‘
We created overcapacity
…’ Crisp, interview with author
They omitted to disclose … Financial Times
, 1 October 2014
‘
The NHS got a huge jolt
…’ Hutton, interview with author
Blair was the party leader despite …
Rawnsley
, End of the Party,
p. 229
‘
Tony felt cornered
’ Mandelson, p. 365
In Blair’s interpretation, Brown
… Blair, p. 485
After telephoning some
… Powell, pp. 121, 156; Campbell,
Burden of Power
, p. 565
‘
I had told Blair in 2001
…’ Milburn, interview with author; Mandelson, p. 364
Chris Smith emerged from … The Times
, 19 May 2003
Blair was again torn
… Powell, p. 296
‘
I really never looked back
’ Blair, pp. 56, 60, 68
‘
I was just a front man
…’ ibid., p. 73
‘
His way of managing Gordon
…’ Powell, p. 108
Blair’s weakness was
… Blair, pp. 493–9
‘
I realise that physicians
…’ Foster, interview with author
Dirty staff were causing
… Rivett, p. 224
Within a year, British doctors
… King’s Fund, ‘Where’s the Money Going?’ February 2006
After taking account of
… ibid.
The estimated cost of … The Times
, 31 October 2004
‘
Foundation hospitals …’ The Times
, 8 May 2003
Blair’s misfortune was
… Gubb, Civitas, ‘The NHS’, p. 50
‘
supreme fulfillment of my mission
…’ Blair, pp. 496–7
Much of the extra money
… Gubb, Civitas, ‘The NHS’ p. 21
‘
We had too much
…’ Crisp, pp. 91–2, 135
‘
Reid didn’t care
…’ Alberti, interview with author
NHS hospitals would be …
Warner
, A Suitable Case for Treatment
, p. 61
Gaming by managers
… Turnbull, interview with author
Any mention of ‘ability’ … Oxford Review of Education
, April 2009, p. 271
That embarrassment was hidden
… Cassen, interview with author
By 2006, 10.4 per cent of the young
… Lupton and Obolenskaya, p. 9
Exhaustive research by
… Cassen,
Making a Difference in Education
He would resurrect
… Powell, p. 181; Campbell,
Burden of Power,
p. 563
£50 million on a
… Gillard,
Axes to Grind: The First Five Years of Blair’s Academies
, 2007, p. 21:
www.educationengland.org.uk/articles/25academies.html
(and see Gillard,
Education in England
)
The latter, a fifteen-year programme
… Lupton and Obolenskaya, pp. 12–13
‘
Won’t all this
…’
eprints.lse.ac.uk/32289/1/Lewis_Sure_start_childrens_centres_2011.pdf
‘
wrong … We were short on
…’ Eisenstadt, p. 100
The old inequalities
… ibid., p. 161
Research by academics
…
Guardian
, 14 December 2010, 12 July 2012
‘
have not yet borne fruit
’ Eisenstadt, p. 157
‘
Blair will stay to fight
…’
The Times
, 15 July 2004
‘
Deliverology’ was corrupting education
.
www.civitas.org.uk/pdf/FastTracktoSlowProgress.pdf
‘a drag on our system’
Chilcot, Walker and Boyce
British soldiers were seen sunbathing
… Chilcot, Boyce
Short encouraged her officials
… ibid.
‘
Bits and pieces
’ Chilcot, Dearlove, second session, 30 July 2010, p. 10
Although Kevin Tebbit
… Tebbit, interview with author
Under the headline … The Times
, 1 May 2003
‘
It is startlingly apparent
…’ Chilcot, Jackson, 28 July 2010
accused of being ‘General Hypocrite’ … Sunday Times
, 10 December 2006
The 5,000 battle-ready commandos
… Owen,
In Sickness
, p. 298: Chilcot, Sawers memo, 11 May 2003
‘
There’s only so much
…’ Walker, interview with author
‘
I didn’t think they were
…’ ibid.
‘
complete misunderstanding about
…’ Chilcot, Walker
He cautioned that
… Chilcot, Fry, p. 87
‘
unlikely to be aggressive
’ Chilcot, 21 January 2011, citing JIC paper, 19 February 2003
Blair’s mask did not reveal
… Tebbit, interview with author
The Tories had won impressively
… Powell, p. 296
After sixteen months’ proximity
… Blair, p. 463
Or at least that was the argument
… ITV interview with Blair, December 2009; Chilcot, Boyce
Giving Hans Blix more time
… Blair, p. 427
Blair was repeating Curveball’s invention … The Times
, 31 May 2003
‘
It’s another attack
…’ Campbell,
Blair Years
, p. 699
Campbell for his part took comfort
… Campbell,
Burden of Power,
pp. 597, 643
‘
The best way would be to get
…’ ibid., p. 602
The public, Blair understood
… Blair, pp. 454–5
‘
open a flank on the BBC’
Campbell,
Burden of Power
, pp. 635, 668, 683
‘
a decisive meeting
’ Tebbit, interview with author;
The Times
, 14 October 2003
‘
to fuck Gilligan
’ Boulton, p. 211; Campbell,
Burden of Power
, p. 618
‘
handled’ by Tebbit … The Times
, 8 January 2004
Hoon directed spokesmen
… Hoon, interview with author; Smith, Hutton inquiry, 20 August 2003
‘
provide as much information
…’ Blair, p. 456
provoking Tory MPs
…
The Times,
17 July 2003
‘
There was no inevitability
…’ Blair, p. 479
‘
The truth is that
…’ ibid., pp. 380, 449, 465
‘
The problem was that this
…’ ibid., pp. 457–8
‘
It was truly a ghastly moment
’ ibid., p. 459
Blair would not mention that
…
The Times
, 25 February 2004
His next step was to allow
… Pollard, pp. 279, 283
‘
wave through’ applications
… ibid., p. 279
‘
There is no obvious upper limit
…’
Newsnight
, BBC TV, 12 November 2003
‘
I made a mistake
…’ Blunkett, interview with author
‘
started playing footsie
…’ Milburn, interview with author
‘
that a deal had actually
…’ Mandelson, p. 372
‘
a thousand people kicking …’ The Times
, 12 January 2004
‘
There will be absolutely no retreat
…’
Guardian
, 3 December 2003
‘
This is where [Clinton’s] resilience
…’ Blair, p. 233
On the morning of the vote
… Rawnsley,
End of the Party
, p. 235
‘
relations between the Chancellor …’ The Times,
28 January 2004
‘
There was no dishonourable
…’ Blair, p. 460
‘
simply playing to the gallery
…’
The Times,
14 May 2004
‘
Too good to be true
’ Seldon and Kavanagh, pp. 104–5; Rawnsley,
End of the Party,
p. 239
‘I really didn’t want that
’ Blair, p. 463
‘
unwise because it was never
…’ ibid., pp. 495–6
‘
Why are you still sitting here?
’ Rawnsley,
End of the Party
, p. 270
He told Brown
… Blair, pp. 506–9
‘
At the beginning
…’ Blunkett, interview with author; Pollard p. 280
Unusually, the Tories were … The Times
, 3 April 2004
With the polls showing that
… ibid., 6 April 2004
To restore himself alongside
… Seldon,
Blair
, p. 635
‘
real abuses of …’ The Times
, 7 and 28 April 2004; Blair article in
The Times
, 16 September 2004