Terry Jones: Mr Blair's dark days
'Nobody could have read this Saturday's accounts of the Iraq crisis without being deeply moved. To read how close Tony Blair had come to losing his job was a sobering experience. It was similarly dreadful to learn how "terrified" the Prime Minister had been that Iraq would prove to be his personal "Vietnam". And how touching it was to discover that Mr. Blair had had to warn his family that he might have to quit over Iraq. Those must have been dark days indeed.'

This is another in a series of effective and pointed articles by Terry Jones.

Terry Jones: Mr Blair's dark days
'Nobody could have read this Saturday's accounts of the Iraq crisis without being deeply moved. To read how close Tony Blair had come to losing his job was a sobering experience. It was similarly dreadful to learn how "terrified" the Prime Minister had been that Iraq would prove to be his personal "Vietnam". And how touching it was to discover that Mr. Blair had had to warn his family that he might have to quit over Iraq. Those must have been dark days indeed.'

This is another in a series of effective and pointed articles by Terry Jones.