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Article: 'Blair will be gone by the summer'; New Statesman editor Peter Wilby is keen to help the PM on his way. But don't accuse him of being a stooge of the Chancellor - or anyone else.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 21, 2004
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Byline: DAVID ROWAN
AS Tony Blair prepares for a make-or-break 24 hours next week, the editor of Labour's traditional house journal is keen to offer some advice.
"The time has come for Blair to go," Peter Wilby suggests bluntly from his cluttered New Statesman office. "It's pretty clear he was behind the decision to name David Kelly, and he hasn't told the whole truth about it, though I don't suppose you can blame him for someone's suicide. But when a Prime Minister has made such a catastrophic misjudgment on such an important thing as war, telling what proved to be lies and getting it so wrong, he really should leave the stage."
Wilby's ...