Toby Young Toby Young

A Journey is about the UK’s tack to the centre, but Blair fails to nail his own legacy

Toby Young suffers from Status Anxiety

issue 04 September 2010

There’s a scene at the beginning of The Special Relationship, the third part of Peter Morgan’s Tony Blair trilogy, in which Hillary Clinton offers Blair some advice. ‘People tend to remember you for one thing,’ she says. ‘You have to make sure you define what it is.’

Presumably, Blair’s main reason for writing A Journey is to put a positive spin on his premiership, but he’s left it a little late by Hillary’s standards.

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