Archives: 1 February, 2004
Five minutes later, he is out of his coat and smiling, in Downing Street with a glass of champagne in his hand, alongside the Prime Minister, Cherie Booth, and most of the senior government figures released from their purdah by Hutton. Blair believes he has successfully passed the toughest hurdles of the most treacherous week of his political career. But across Britain there is one word on the lips of his critics and neutrals alike: whitewash.
Eddie Barnes on "Teflon" Tony Blair surviving the Hutton Inquiry.