“It proved that, although he might no longer be sitting in the editor’s chair, he was still capable of making the headlines; he had known everyone, been everywhere and wasn’t afraid to name drop. And name drop, he did. As for Cherie Blair, who he said disliked him: ‘I don’t hate Cherie. She had an extremely difficult upbringing that left her pretty damaged. She’s not dissimilar to Diana in that respect. The last time I saw her was at Peter Mandelson’s leaving do, where she flirted with me. T...he chivalrous thing is to say that I wouldn’t be her type.’ He followed up that statement by calling her ‘breathtakingly capricious and vindictive, if not in the grip of a personality disorder’. Blair himself, meanwhile, came across as a smidgen sycophantic in the book. They first met when Piers was editing the News Of The World. ‘I want a good relationship with you and the News Of The World,’ he had said. ‘I don’t want to get chewed up and spat out, like Neil Kinnock was by the Sun.’ However, the two men, probably recognising in each other equally able operators, managed to get on.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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