How Bush uses Blair
From Richard Heller Sir: I can confirm Peter Oborne's depressing account of Tony Blair's relationship with George W. Bush and the willingness of the Labour party to tolerate it (Politics, 16 October). At the end of August, after a visit to the United States, I wrote to every Labour MP to suggest that Tony Blair was being used as a political asset in the Bush campaign and to urge them to take steps to end this, I received 25 replies. (Intriguingly, none, not even the lone minister, defended the Bush-Blair relationship.) I have worked or voted for the Labour party in every election since 1959, but if Bush gets a second term, with the support of Tony Blair and the acquiescence of the Labour party, I shall not vote Labour again.
Richard Heller
London SE I
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