Authors: Tom Bower
Broken Vows (70 page)
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I thought it was dishonest’ 4 Corners
, Australian TV, 15 February 2005
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convincing intelligence
’ ISC report, para 66
Blair, her report concluded
… ibid., p. 57
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Why did he [Saddam]
…’ Blair, p. 374
The Anglo-American bombing
… ibid., p. 382
Possibly, Saddam was misled … The Times
, 18 March 2004
The following year, Blair
… Blair, p. 376
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assumed an active chemical
…’ ibid., p. 381
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The overall situation
…’ Walker, interview with author
Despite Jack Straw’s later denials
… Richard Norton-Taylor,
Guardian
, 23 January 2015
So many countries …
Greene
, Blair, Labour and Palestine,
p. 98
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Without a political objective
…’ Jackson, interview with author
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conditions’ and ‘solutions
’ Bowen, interview with author
the army’s fate languished
… Fry, interview with author
Then Gordon Brown demanded
… Chilcot, Walker
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I’ve drawn a line
…’ Walker, interview with author; Powell, p. 115
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bring down the government
…’ Powell, p. 126
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I wasn’t sure that Tony
…’ Mandelson, p. 296
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I think Tony Blair uses
…’
The Times
, 22 March 2002
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I am not seeing Tony
…’ Mandelson, p. 386
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He’s in a fight
…’ Pollard, p. 292
But, at the end of May
… ibid., p. 296
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There never was a moment …’ The Times,
17 September 2004
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They had taken six months
…’ Chilcot, Walker
The extra soldiers … The Times
, 9 July 2004
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do better in Afghanistan
…’ Fry, interview with author
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finish the job
’ Elliott,
High Command
, p. 113
‘If you’re not happy
…’ Walker, interview with author
About 30 per cent of children … The Times,
27 April 2004
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Links between expenditure
…’ ibid., 7 January 2005
Blaming bad teachers
… ibid., 23 February 2005
Although 21,700 more teachers
… Seldon and Kavanagh, p. 276
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ten-year-old pupils were ranked
…’ Blair, p. 523
Immigrants, maintained Blair
… ibid., pp. 523–4
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Let’s move on
…’ Clarke, interview with author
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Are you serious, Trevor?
’ Kavanagh, interview with author; Powell, p. 137
Dearlove had told Taylor’s
… ISC report, para 51
the agency was admitting
… Butler report, para 413
a corrupted processing system
… ibid., para 422
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The dossier
…’ ibid., paras 454, 458, 466
an instrument of persuasion
… ibid., para 462
the dossier was not remotely connected
… ibid., para 319
Dearlove was taken to task
… ibid., paras 67, 331, 464
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high regard
…’ ibid., para 469
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Perhaps we were too polite
…’ Butler, interview with author
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We conclude that it would
…’ Butler report, para 392
Tony Blair, he told … New Statesman
, 30 September 2004
He would later accuse Blair … Question Time
, BBC TV, 28 April 2005
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In the final analysis
…’ Blair, p. 424
The two generals agreed
… Dannatt, interview with author
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I didn’t realise
…’ Jackson, interview with author
with the polls showing … The Times
, 29 April 2004
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what you did
…’ Blair, pp. 581–2
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TB really was
…’ ibid., p. 232
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pretty corrupt …’ The Times
, 25 August 2004
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previously saved £3 million
…’ ibid., 16 May 2005
twenty-five of the 292 peers
… ibid., 14 November 2005
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Mad, bad and dangerous
’ Mandelson, pp. 405–6
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You can’t talk about
…’ Powell, p. 125
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Tony’s overriding concern
…’ Mandelson, p. 201
the debt had risen from
… Seldon and Kavanagh, p. 181
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the mood trumps
…’ Blair, p. 513
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fantasy island
…’ The Times, 7 February 2005, 17 June 2005
570,000 illegal immigrants
… ibid., 1 July 2005
The Tories’ best
… Blair, pp. 523–5
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I believe in you …’ The Times
, 14 February 2005
This line of attack
… Blair, p. 511
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We’ve lost’ Rawnsley, End of the Party
, p. 313
This was not his sentiment
… Blair, p. 511
Blair half doubted
… Mandelson, p. 409
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ungenerous’ and ‘grim’
… Blair, p. 529
The publication of these proposals
… Warner, p. 91
Naturally, he would not admit
… Blair, p. 211
‘There were no new ideas
…’ McKeon, interview with author
‘The problem is always
…’ Crisp, email to author, 30 March 2015
‘being strangled by
…’
The Times,
31 August 2004
Just after the election
… Warner, p. 157
Besides more doctors
… Gubb, Civitas, ‘The NHS’, p. 10
staff productivity had risen
… ibid., p. 32, citing King’s Fund report
unit costs in hospitals
… King’s Fund, ‘Our Future Health Secured? A Review of NHS Funding and Performance’, 2007, p. 30:
www.kingsfund.org.uk/sites/files/kf/field/field_publication_file/our-future-health-secured-review-nhs-funding-performance-full-version-sir-derek-wanless-john-appleby-tony-harrison-darshan-patel-11-september-2007.pdf
The Healthcare Commission reported
… King’s Fund, ‘Spending on Healthcare. How Much Is Enough?’ 2006
Half of the annual increase
… Department of Health, ‘Explaining the Deficit’, 2007, pp. 64–5
Within three years, GPs
’ … Gubb, Civitas, ‘The NHS’, p. 33
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John Reid paid out
…’ Chisholm, interview with author
Britain’s premature death rates
… Gubb, Civitas, ‘The NHS’, p. 15
Warner had sent Crisp and Hewitt
… Warner, p. 157
Over half were serial
… ibid., p. 78
Only £475 million would
… King’s Fund, ‘Where’s the Money Going?’ February 2006
Contrary to Richard Douglas’s
… Nuffield, ‘Pay Reform – Facts, Achievements and Lessons Learnt’, 2014
He ignored a report
… Crisp, p. 93; Warner, p. 51;
Financial Times
, 6 February 2008
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We lost clear direction
’ Crisp, p. 51
Similar mismanagement had
… Gubb, Civitas, ‘The NHS’, p. 34
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Probably I only found
…’ Blair, pp. 216, 223
There was a chasm between
… Goodhart, p. 223
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What does Tony think
…’ McNulty, interview with author
Rather than 13,000
… Goodhart, p. 215;
BBC News
, 30 June 2005; Spencer, ‘Immigration’, p. 355
Justin Russell, his special adviser
… Goodhart, pp. 270, 283
But the revival of his interest
… McNulty, interview with author
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I really did feel
…’ Blair, p. 584
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You completely shafted me
…’ Powell, p. 126
In retaliation, Brown
… McBride, p. 175
Blair retaliated by
… Powell, p. 126
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We began to lose control
…’ ibid., p. 298
He insisted on a Fundamental
… Blair, pp. 587, 682
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settle Iraq and
…’ Blair, p. 530
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put[ting] some backbone
…’ Tebbit, interview with author
the prime minister agreed
… Walker, interview with author; Fry, interview with author
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We can do Iraq and Afghanistan
’ Walker, interview with author
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we did not have any clear
…’ ibid.
Knowing that Blair was
… Elliott, p. 172
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If that’s your view
…’ Walker, interview with author; Elliott, p. 132
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As John made very
…’ Blair, pp. 610–11
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although Tony and Reid
…’ Powell, p. 269
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We would be perfectly happy
…’ House of Commons Defence Committee, 8 February 2011
as David Normington was forced
… House of Commons Education Committee, 12 October 2005
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National tests
…’ Primary National Survey, 2004
Some £885 million
… House of Commons Public Accounts Committee, January 2006
even sympathetic politicians
… House of Commons Education Committee, 12 October 2005
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Just nine out of 21,000 … The Times
, 16 March 2005
The government was committed
… ibid., 17 March 2005
His argument about education
… Blair, pp. 580–1
the country had fallen from … The Times
, 14 September 2005
Those 71,000 non-graduates
… ibid., 22 September 2005
Ghettoisation in faith schools
…
Guardian
, 18 January 2005
Bell was supported
… ibid., 15 October 2005
Kelly encouraging primary schools … The Times
, 22 December 2005
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politically correct interference
…’ Blair, p. 577
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extraordinarily poorly written
’ House of Commons Select Education Committee, 12 October 2005
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The trouble is
…’ Powell, p. 68
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There was a significant
…’
Public Finance,
23 September 2005
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English ten-year-olds
…’ Specialist Schools and Academies Trust Annual Conference, 30 November 2006
That, reported the academics
… Lupton and Obolenskaya, p. 35; Toynbee,
Guardian
, 2 July 2013
Setting targets had failed
… Brown, King’s College London lecture, slide 24
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He would rather sacrifice
…’ Powell, p. 35
On the night … The Times
, 15 March 2006
Enquiries revealed that
… ibid., 23 March 2006
A paper by Robert Cassen
… Cassen, Rowntree report, 2007
the attainment of disadvantaged pupils
… Lupton and Obolenskaya, pp. 27–8
Despite the huge expenditure
… ‘Social Mobility Strategy’, LSE, 2011
The number of state-school pupils
… Lupton and Obolenskaya, p. 45
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primary schools in the poorest
…’ Toynbee,
Guardian
, 2 July 2013
The only children
… Sutton report, June 2007
The exam results
… NAO report, 2007
he would use inaccurate
… Blair, p. 523
he upped his target
… ibid., p. 577
educating less than 3 per cent
… Lupton and Obolenskaya, p. 29