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Loyalists in conflict with PSNI in Tiger s Bay area of North Belfast on Friday night.
I am often asked about low points and high points of my time as Tony Blair’s spokesman and strategist.
Picking just one of each is easier than you might imagine.
Low point – landing at Heathrow, turning on my phone to find a rash of messages to call Number 10 urgently, to be told that the body of weapons inspector David Kelly had been found.
As I told my diary, I could feel a juggernaut coming my way.
‘A byword for peace processes’
High point – no contest. April 10, Good Friday 1998, THAT Good Friday, the one which gave its name to an Agreement which became known the world over as a byword for peace processes in which previously irreconcilable enemies could become reconciled, and democracy could replace the bomb and the bullet as the preferred route to win hearts and minds, and get things done.
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