In tomorrow’s papers the reviewers will compare ‘A Journey’ to those “real-life” misery memoirs that seem to be publishing catnip. It is not inaccurate to conclude that this is tale of one man’s struggle in an abusive relationship, and all the more unstatesmanlike for it.
The tiny details of the relationship between TB and GB fascinate me. Brown is the one, Blair admits, who coined the soundbyte “tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime” for example.
However, by far the most interesting aspect of the book is Blair’s barely disguised hatred of the Labour left and, most of all, the left-wing intellectuals. So here, very quickly are some of his key quotes about today’s leading left-wing Labour figures. Tony Blair, it is reasonable to conclude, does not like the Labour Party one bit.
Jon Cruddas: “reheated Bennism”
Jon made quite a name for himself.
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