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We fall for... the theories of betrayal very easily, and one of the things that's always depressed me about the left, ever since I started in politics, is their ability to imbibe the propaganda of the right and regurgitate it to the left.

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Tony Blair
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 6
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Edinburgh
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Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
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Rt. Hon. Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
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