"AT last, the Gospel according to Tony Blair. As prime minister he permitted his spokesman to declare: "we don't do God", now, as a retired elder statesman he decided he does and not only that but religious faith is now central to solving the world's problems." (Read more...)
Labels: Britain, Tony Blair
An excerpt from TimesOnline;
TONY BLAIR has admitted that his Christianity played a “hugely important” role during his premiership but he was forced to play down his religious conviction for fear of being seen by the public as “a nutter”.
In his most frank television interview about his religious beliefs, Blair confesses he would have found it difficult to do the job of prime minister had he not been able to draw on his faith.
The admission confirms why Alastair Campbell, then Blair’s director of communications, was so wary of the prime minister mentioning religion. “We don’t do God,” he once said.
In a documentary to be broadcast on BBC1 next Sunday, Campbell now says of his former boss: “Well, he does do God – in quite a big way.”
The former spin doctor reveals that Christianity was so important to Blair that “wherever you were in the world on a Sunday you had to find a church”.
Labels: Britain, Faith, Tony Blair, UK
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