Blair was incandescently furious that he agreed to incorporate the Freedom of Information Act into a legislator, says Tom Bower. He constantly screamed at Home Office officials about how to get rid of all these bogus asylum seekers - and when told it was the Human Rights Act, he kept saying 'my god, we made a terrible mistake' The issue about Hansbitt is quite simple. Tony Blair and his evidence that Shurakott said, it didn't matter about Hans Blick's. As far as he was concerned, he wanted war and removed Saddam. And whether Hans Blick stayed and found WMDs or not.
Tony Blair is the man who reinvented Labour, won a landslide majority in 1997 and went on to win three elections, becoming Labour’s longest-serving prime minister. He is also the man accused of lies, hubris, money-making deals and taking us into an illegal war.
This episode features a live event which Intelligence Squared hosted in London in March 2016, when we put Tony Blair on trial and examined his legacy on foreign policy, health, education and much more.
Levelling charges against him was Tom Bower, investigative journalist and author of Broken Vows: Tony Blair and the Tragedy of Power. Defending him was the journalist and Times columnist David Aaronovitch.
This event was originally produced by Hannah Kaye. This series was produced by Farah Jassat and Catharine Hughes, with editing and artwork from Catharine Hughes. Music is by Lesfm.
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