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    Medialens, Iraq: "On April 9, 2003 Marr lauded Blair’s great triumph on the main BBC evening news" 📂 Archived Message

    Posted by Jim_Carlucci on November 20, 2021, 1:57 am, in reply to "Andrew Marr has announced he is leaving the BBC after 21 years."

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    Medialens, Iraq: "On April 9, 2003 Marr lauded Blair’s great triumph on the main BBC evening news":


    "A JOURNEY UNCHALLENGED – ANDREW MARR INTERVIEWS TONY BLAIR – Media Lens, 2010"
    https://www.medialens.org/2010/a-journey-unchallenged-andrew-marr-interviews-tony-blair/

    "Mr Blair is well aware that all his critics out there in the party and beyond aren’t going to thank him - because they’re only human - for being right when they’ve been wrong."

    “Frankly, the main mood [in Downing Street] is of unbridled relief. I’ve been watching ministers wander around with smiles like split watermelons.”

    Marr delivered this news with his own watermelon smile. He continued:

    “Well, I think this does one thing - it draws a line under what, before the war, had been a period of… well, a faint air of pointlessness, almost, was hanging over Downing Street. There were all these slightly tawdry arguments and scandals. That is now history. Mr Blair is well aware that all his critics out there in the party and beyond aren’t going to thank him - because they’re only human - for being right when they’ve been wrong. And he knows that there might be trouble ahead, as I said. But I think this is very, very important for him. It gives him a new freedom and a new self-confidence. He confronted many critics."

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