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New Channel 4 Blair Documentary Shares Candid Reflections on Office and Iraq

The film draws on fresh interviews to examine Blair’s unease in office alongside the personal cost for his family.

Overview

  • The three-part Channel 4 series, The Tony Blair Story, begins broadcasting this week.
  • Tony Blair says he is not sure he enjoyed being prime minister despite a decade in No 10.
  • He reiterates a moral case for backing the 2003 Iraq invasion and suggests history may yet vindicate him.
  • Former MI6 chief Sir John Sawers tells the film that going into Iraq was a mistake and not a strategic success.
  • Cherie Blair offers frank personal observations, calling him a better politician than husband, noting he has never bought her flowers, and describing how Iraq protests affected their children.