Pull the Other Leg, Mr Blair ; the Pm's New-Found Love of Cricket Can't Disguise the Fact That His Party Hates Everything This Great Game Stands For
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AFTER THE party, the hangover - and not just the understandably sore head which Freddie Flintoff was nursing yesterday. A glorious victory by the England cricket team was followed by an all-too- predictable, but deeply ignoble, attempt to appropriate that glory by Tony Blair.
It was, no doubt, inevitable that the Prime Minister would shoehorn himself into the act by asking the team to Downing Street after their triumphal procession through London. In 1966, Harold Wilson did everything he could to exploit another famous victory, asking jocosely why it was that we only won the World Cup under Labour.See the full content of this document
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Pull the Other Leg, Mr Blair ; the Pm's New-Found Love of Cricket Can't Disguise the Fact That His Party Hates Everything This Great Game Stands For
We were spared that yesterday, which was just as well, since an equivalent question would not have been even remotely funny. Mr Blair's attempt to steal the limelight is not merely repellent. It is ludicrous, since cricket stands for everything this Government hates, from fair play to individual excellen...
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