UK Politics

Double take

David Aaranovitch has written the speech he thinks Tony Blair should have given.

Some of you who want me gone should ask yourselves a simple question. Why do you think the Daily Mail and others have invested so much effort in discrediting me personally? Could it be because I am seen as one major obstacle to the middle classes returning to the Tory fold? Has it anything to do with the fact that, under my leadership, this party has pulverised the Conservatives, almost beyond redemption?

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