'Indicate left and turn right'. To what extent does it represent Blair's policy?

Spending his holiday on the Ile de Re with Lionel Jospin, Tony Blair and the then French Prime Minister were visiting the island by car. As they arrived at a crossroads, Jospin asked him which way to go. 'Indicate left and turn right', Blair answered. Even though the truthfulness of such a discussion is disputable, the clear-cut idea held by some commentators -e.g. the journalist Nick Cohen- that the British Prime Minister had been …

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