Coming soon: Andrew Adonis’s Blair best-seller

It’s always difficult to know what to get a politics-mad relative at Christmas. Another Private Eye annual perhaps? Tickets to see Matt Forde’s stand-up tour? A Blu Ray box set of The Thick Of It? Or yet another ‘hilarious’ satirically themed book like ‘Five on Brexit Island‘ or ‘The Illustrated Tweets of Donald Trump.‘  Fortunately for those long-suffering politicos anticipating several cheeseboards and a ‘witty’ festive mug, help will be at hand for next year due to the imminent arrival of what will surely be the Christmas bestseller of 2022.

For word reaches Mr S that Lord Adonis, Britain’s most ironically-titled peer, is turning his quill to a subject very close to his heart: the definitive biography of Tony Blair. Adonis of course has detailed knowledge of the Blair years: he served in the No. 10 Policy Unit for New Labour’s first two terms before being ennobled for the third, spending five years in the education and transport departments and entering the Cabinet in 2009.