Portrait of the Week – 26 April 2003

The Daily Telegraph said that documents found in the ruined Iraqi foreign ministry in Baghdad by a Daily Telegraph reporter were said to discuss payments to Mr George Galloway, the MP for Glasgow Kelvin. Mr Galloway said: ‘I have never solicited, nor would I have accepted had I been offered, any financial assistance of any kind from the Iraqi regime.’ Mr Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, told the Sun how he had explained to his children that a Commons vote on the Iraq war might bring him down: ‘I did sit down with them at one point and I explained that this was going to be extremely difficult and it was possible the thing could go against me,’ he said. Mr Blair also retailed a telephone conversation with Mr Jose Maria Aznar, the Prime Minister of Spain, about the war: ‘He rang me to say, “I have the support of only 4 per cent of my people.”