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Article: Blair's personal chaplain from Down Under

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May 31, 1996
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Unlikely setting. Unlikely man. The place is London N7, a quarter- mile to the west of Holloway prison, the same distance north from Pentonville. Walk 10 minutes and you're at Tony Blair's house in Islington. We're in a small flat which sits above the St Francis Church of England Centre, a bland 60s-ish brick structure which provides a meeting place for Alcoholics Anonymous, a disabled kids' group and an Ethiopian church of Coptic Christians.

The man is Peter Thomson, 60, Australian, Anglican vicar. To the extent that he's famous, it is for having inspired the young Tony Blair at Oxford towards an idea of Christian socialism which continues to drive him. But those who know Thomson can tell ...

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