Reply #11: Blair 'relished sending British forces to war' [View All]

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Here's the actual story in question, from the UK Mail on Sunday (I'll leave other DUer's to remind you of the Mail's politics)

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=362725&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source=&ct=5

An explosive political row erupted last night after Downing Street tried to censor a book by one of Tony Blair's most senior former aides, revealing shocking details of how the Prime Minister runs the country.

Ex-No 10 spin doctor Lance Price has enraged Mr Blair by publishing the first-ever first-hand account of the inner workings of New Labour. And he has defied the Cabinet Secretary's attempts to prevent the publication of his devastating memoirs, The Spin Doctor's Diary, serialised in The Mail on Sunday today.

They give a blow-by-blow account of endless backbiting, tantrums and rows between senior Ministers and officials and lay bare the cynicism of Blair's team. But there are further claims which Price was told to remove from the book after intervention by the Government and which we can now reveal, including:


- That Blair appeared privately to "relish" sending British troops to war in Iraq as his "first blooding", while publicly claiming he did it "with a heavy heart".
- That the Government promised media mogul Rupert Murdoch it would not change its policy on Europe without telling him first.
- That the Prime Minister repeatedly bawled out in rage 'f****** Welsh' when an election in the principality was going against Labour.