A Journey is about the UK’s tack to the centre, but Blair fails to nail his own legacy

There’s a scene at the beginning of The Special Relationship, the third part of Peter Morgan’s Tony Blair trilogy, in which Hillary Clinton offers Blair some advice. ‘People tend to remember you for one thing,’ she says. ‘You have to make sure you define what it is.’

Presumably, Blair’s main reason for writing A Journey is to put a positive spin on his premiership, but he’s left it a little late by Hillary’s standards. The scene above takes place when he’s been in office for less than a month. The point of view of the film — echoing the conventional wisdom — is that Blair will chiefly be remembered for his part in the Iraq war. Morgan depicts him as a vainglorious popinjay whose obsession with his ‘legacy’ led him to embark on a disastrous military adventure alongside a Texan halfwit.

I haven’t read A Journey yet but apparently Blair devotes a fair portion of it to defending his decision to commit British forces to the War on Terror.