This time - it’s the Tigris and Euphrates
It was supposedly said by Lady Eden, of the 1956 Suez crisis, that she felt as if the Suez Canal ran through Downing Street. I wonder what Cherie thinks about Iraq today.
Yesterday said it all. So febrile and lacking in confidence is the Government becoming, that Tony Blair was not to be seen in the chamber of the House of Commons at all during the debate on Iraq. We are always told that what happens abroad does not impact voters domestically, yet the Iraq debacle crystallises the terrible triumph of spin over substance that marks the Blair era.
It was Suez that cost Sir Anthony Eden his job. It is the tragic situation in the Middle East which will cause Blair to leave office with such a diminished reputation.