In 2000 and Y, 2001, the test showed in great improvements amongst children. From 2001 onwards, they plateaued or went down. And none of the Labour people, the educationists or Michael Barbo is head of the delivery to understand why. The reason was that the tests were fixed, the results were poor, and there had been an inheritance of good students from the Tory years. So you shouldn't actually accuse me of distorting the truth because I didn't. What I did was I took facts and I interpreted them. Thank you for your patience, Professor Brown. We'll be back next week with General Petraeus on the lasting legacy of the Iraq War on modern foreign policy.
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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