Tony Blair to publish memoirs
Showbiz Desk

LONDON—Former British prime minister Tony Blair has struck a deal with Random House to publish his memoirs, the company said Thursday.
No publication date has been set for the book, which will chronicle his ten years in Downing Street, and Random House declined to specify Blair’s fee, which is expected to amount to several million pounds (euros/dollars). “I hope my memoirs will provide a serious and thoughtful, but also entertaining, reflection on my time as a member of parliament and as prime minister,” Blair, who is now international envoy to the Middle East for the so-called Quartet, said in a statement.
Random House also published the diaries of Blair’s communications chief Alastair Campbell in July, which was criticised for leaving out details of Blair’s tumultuous relationship with his then finance minister and successor in Downing Street, Gordon Brown.
Blair and Brown, who both entered parliament in 1983 and were friends, were credited with jointly reforming their Labour Party and bringing it to the centre ground, helping it win three consecutive general elections from 1997. Their friendship turned to feuding, however, when Brown reportedly fell out with Blair over the latter’s failure to honour a well-publicised but never confirmed deal they made in 1994 where Brown would support Blair as Labour leader, and Blair would step aside for Brown part way into a Labour government.