Blair's salad days with Murdoch's guru

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Please don't get ill while reading this)

Tony Blair's idea of lunch is a salad and Diet Coke and he rates George Bush one of the most intelligent men he has ever met. Gordon Brown wants to be Prime Minister, but would find it a letdown.

These are the surprising insights of Dr Irwin Stelzer, the US economist, right-hand man of Rupert Murdoch and close confidant of the two most powerful men in British politics. In his first major newspaper interview, in today's Observer, Stelzer offers unrivalled insight into the Blair-Brown relationship. He also attacks the widespread perception that he is Murdoch's 'enforcer', capable of bending Downing Street to the mogul's will.

Stelzer confirmed Brown's desire to reach No 10, but added: 'I don't know if he'd like the job. I don't know how he would tolerate the frustration of dealing with a ministerial colleague who first of all wasn't as bright - which I guarantee you none of them would be - and second was not completely signed on to both the means and the ends.'


Blair is a 'more intuitive' politician who is 'more comfortable in the Middle England and celebrity milieu'. He has told Stelzer that 'George W Bush is one the most intelligent men he's ever met'.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1329544,00.html

[KoKo]

1. hmmmm...not sure what that says about Blair...

:eyes: except that all that diet coke has fried his brain.