Polly Toynbee described Blair’s pre-resignation speech as a “tour de force”. John Sturrock offers a slightly different view:
“The lowest point of this prolonged and empty charade of self-justification came near the end of the speech, when Blair scaled new heights of either shamelessness or self-delusion: ‘But I ask you to accept one thing. Hand on heart, I did what I thought was right. I may have been wrong. That’s your call.’ It’s comforting up to a point to know that someone this capable of persevering in a belief that the jury might still be out on Iraq, or that an appropriate jury might be the surviving Labour faithful in Sedgefield, will soon be ready to head off and market his unacceptable convictions on the US lecture circuit.”
Well said.
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