We can do not better this morning that reporduce part of the Wales on Sunday’s Spin Doctor column as evidence of how it is really hard to believe anything that politicians say on live radio interviews:
SO how was the relationship between Mr Tony Blair and Mr Gordon Brown during New Labour’s time in government?
April 2006: The then Welsh Secretary Peter Hain hits out at the media for running invented stories about a rift between the pair – a rift, he says, which is entirely invented by journalists.
“A lot of the media obsession in this seems in a different world from the one I operate in around the cabinet table and in Government,” he fumes.
June 2007: Former MP for Islwyn Don Touhig is asked on Radio Wales about reports of antagonism between Mr Blair and Mr Brown. He says that MPs in the Commons tearoom “laugh off” reports of a feud between the pair as the media-invented nonsense it is.
Click here to find out more!
September 2010: Mr Blair publishes his autobiography. He reveals a long-running and poisonous dysfunctional relationship with his Chancellor which saw the latter repeatedly use his “cronies” to undermine him, and culminated in him trying to blackmail the Prime Minister in a row over pensions.
Related posts:
