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Diary: How Blair has become even more Iron Lady-like.(Brief Article)
With a general election looming, Diary thought it might be interesting to look back 16 years. Back to 1989, when the Iron Lady still ruled and Labour's shadow energy secretary, a bright thirtysomething lawyer called Tony Blair, was making government advertising his cause celebre.
In those days, Blair was carefree and pugnacious in his pursuit of government ad excesses. So much so that Campaign thought him a worthy subject for a Newsmaker.
How prophetic a piece it proved, pinpointing him as the personification of 'yuppie socialism' and tipping him as a future prime minister. Indeed, Campaign named Blair and his 'friend' Gordon Brown as Labour's dangermen.
Blair had been forcing a ...
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