Tony Blair’s interview with this magazine and recent reports that he plans to “re-enter” public life have provoked the usual howls of outrage from both right and left. The anti-European Tory press has always loathed Tony because he won Labour three elections and restored our relations with the Continent after years of decline under the Tories. Some leftist commentators too, still obsessed with the Iraq war, want to silence him, as if they can’t bear the possibility that what he’s saying might be right.
As I stood waiting to be interviewed about the latest floods outside Exeter railway station yesterday, a middle-aged couple shuffled by, caught my eye, raised theirs to the skies and said: “Don’t get us started!” I interpreted this (wrongly, as it turned out) as unfriendly and replied: “No, what’s the problem? That’s what I (as your MP) am here for”.
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