Funnily enough, if you take Mr Blair at his word, he thinks this too.
But do you agree with Tony Blair there, that if the NHS is not basically fixed by the next election you will have to take the consequences, you want to take the consequences?
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Say what you like about Mr Blair, he does not belong in that universe.
Say what you will about Tony Blair, he figures, correctly, that the new economy is about talent and capital.
It is the sort of place where, once in a century, you could meet Tony Blair holding a pint.
Mr. BLAIR: You know, the way the whole situation unfolded, I was never given an opportunity, even though at one point during the incident, I tried to, you know, give them an opportunity to identify who I was and that, you know, I lived not too far from where I was stopped from.
It would have led to an "absolute major confrontation" with "virtually every part of the media against you, " Mr. Blair said.
To make a painful story short, if you want to know definitively whose neck is on Tony Blair's or William Hague's chopping block, you may as well stop reading here.
Mr. BLAIR: Well, you know, honestly, I went through several different series.
Remember that there is a long way to go before the election, and that you will seem better once Mr Blair accumulates more negatives.
If you do not believe that Messrs Blair and Brown are the most psychologically fascinating pairing since Victoria and Albert, Bonnie and Clyde or Gabriel and Lucifer, you will not enjoy this book as you are intended to.
As Tony Blair so often found, you just have to trudge on, however disheartening the failures.
"My Conservative friends over there look like they have sat up all night trying to dream up questions to trip you up, " Helms once told Blair.
"On behalf of my generation, the younger one, I thank you, " British Prime Minister Tony Blair told Australian veteran Gordon Church, 96, who landed on Gold Beach.
Would you say there was any tangible progress from the meetings that were attended by Bertie Ahern, Tony Blair on Thursday in Northern Ireland, was there any progress that you can point to?
Or would you prefer to be represented by a Tony Blair or a George Bush, or something much worse, like a Chirac or like Schroeder?
' And you get people who just want to see Blair.
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You may well bump into one of the Blair children in the corridor, and the prime minister's room, reached through his private secretaries' office, has the feel of a country gentleman's study.
Well, congratulations, first of all, to all of you for your victories, and welcome to the Blair House.
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You are wrong, however, to blame Mr Blair for the emphasis he placed on weapons of mass destruction in making the case for war.
In fact, the reporter for the state-wide paper that first broke the story about the crushing of the hard drives, you know, was condemned as, for Jason Blair-type tactics.
Mr. Prime Minister, first of all, would you be prepared to talk to your predecessors, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, to get there agreements to release any documents if they are relevant to the paper search that the Cabinet Secretary will undergo?
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And Tony Blair would never have had that tongue-lashing you gave him!
"Think of all the boys who will die if you don't make peace, " admonishes Preston Blair, the elder Republican operator (whose "Blair House" home is now the official state guest house) played by Hal Holbrook, exuding wisdom and aplomb.
You might almost think, surveying the angry headlines, that Mr Blair had made a mistake.
Substitute Tony Blair for Nick Clegg and TV for radio, and you have the deputy prime minister's approach in two sentences.
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