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Campbell book 'fantastically indiscreet'

29.05.07

Publication of Alastair Campbell's Downing Street diaries will go ahead despite strong disapproval within the outgoing prime minister's inner circle - including his wife, Cherie - but after extensive cuts to protect the confidences of world leaders such as Bill Clinton, George Bush and the Queen, the Guardian has learned.

"Tony Blair wanted Campbell to delay the July 9 publication of The Blair Years, the reputedly £1 million memoirs which one insider calls 'fantastically indiscreet'. Gordon Brown would also prefer to avoid such a distraction during his first weeks in power, while Mrs Blair was said to be 'furious' about the ex-press spokesman's invasion of her family's privacy. So were other senior officials."


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