by Tom Bower
Lawrence, Stephen, 1
Lawson, Nigel, 1
Le Grand, Julian, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Lebanon, 1, 2
Lebedev, Evgeny, 1
Leighton, Allan, 1
Letwin, Oliver, 1, 2
Levy, Lord Michael: position in first TB government, 1; and Ecclestone scandal, 1, 2;
organises fund-raisers, 1;
and Mittal donation, 1;
and Gilligan–Kelly affair, 1;
urges TB not to resign, 1;
acts as TB’s Middle East representative, 1;
returns to party fund-raising, 1;
and loans for peerages scandal, 1, 2, 3, 4;
support for TB, 1
Lewinsky, Monica, 1
Liberia, 1, 2, 3
Libya, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Liddell, Helen, 1, 2
Lilley, Peter, 1, 2
Little, Michael, 1
Littlechild, Stephen, 1
Livingstone, Ken, 1, 2, 3
Lloyd, Liz, 1, 2
local elections: (2006), 1; (2007), 1, 2
Lockerbie bombing, 1, 2, 3
London: Canary Wharf, 1; Finsbury Park mosque, 1;
improvements under TB, 1;
mayoral elections, 1, 2, 3;
Mossbourne Community Academy, 1, 2;
the Oratory, 1, 2;
Pont de la Tour restaurant, 1;
Quintin Kynaston school, 1;
St Bart’s hospital, 1;
TB’s Grosvenor Square HQ, 1, 2;
Whittington hospital, 1;
Wiltons fish restaurant, 1
London Challenge, 1
London School of Economics, 1
London Underground, 1
Lyne, Roderic, 1, 2, 3
Lyon, David, 1
Macaulay, Sarah see Brown, Sarah
McBride, Damian, 1, 2, 3, 4
McCarthy, Bill, 1
McDonagh, Margaret, 1
McIntosh, John, 1
McKay, Neil, 1, 2, 3, 4
McKeon, Andrew, 1, 2
McLean, Vice Admiral Rory, 1, 2
Macmillan, Harold, 1, 2
Macmurray, John, 1
MacNaughton, Joan, 1, 2, 3
McNulty, Tom, 1, 2, 3, 4
McTernan, John, 1
Madrid bombings (2004), 1
Mahon, Alice, 1
Major, John: and 1997 election, 1; and civil service, 1;
education policy, 1;
and Ecclestone, 1;
attitude to the military, 1;
and Bosnia, 1;
education expenditure, 1;
and Scott inquiry, 1;
inquires into Hamilton’s and Aitken’s probity, 1
Makepeace, Richard, 1
Mandelson, Peter: author’s attitude to, 1; role on TB’s staff, 1, 2;
on TB’s prime ministerial style, 1;
almost appointed health secretary, 1;
helps select Butler’s successor, 1;
in charge while TB on holiday, 1;
attitude to Levy’s peerage, 1;
media manipulation, 1, 2;
and Ecclestone scandal, 1, 2, 3;
worsening relations with Brown, 1;
importance to TB, 1;
and energy policy, 1;
appointed trade and industry secretary, 1;
friend of his offers cash for access, 1;
on Dobson and health policy, 1;
criticises Campbell, 1;
TB phones on night of Iraq bombing, 1;
Robinson loan triggers first resignation, 1, 2;
outed as gay, 1;
invited to Chequers for Christmas, 1;
helps with forces of conservatism speech, 1, 2;
and Millennium Dome, 1;
on Brown’s behaviour during 2001 election, 1;
Milburn on, 1;
Hinduja scandal leads to second resignation, 1, 2;
helps with 2001 election, 1;
on TB’s enthusiasm for Iraq war, 1;
on TB–Brown row over foundation hospitals, 1;
less than ideal supporter for TB, 1;
TB talks to about Campbell, 1;
TB tells has done handover deal with Brown, 1;
urges TB not to hand over, 1;
advises TB not to resign, 1;
on TB making Brown 2005 election supremo, 1;
advises TB to send Clarke to Foreign Office, 1;
on David Miliband, 1;
campaigns for TB to become EU president, 1
Manning, David: background, 1; TB sends to Washington to hand over letter re. regime change, 1;
asks Meyer to exclude Straw from reports, 1;
unsuitability as adviser, 1, 2;
builds relationship with Rice, 1;
on mood in Bush’s circle, 1, 2;
and TB’s unconditional guarantees to Bush, 1;
and access to TB, 1, 2;
loyalty to TB, 1;
at Cabinet meeting to discuss Iraq war, 1;
and exclusion of Tebbit from war plans, 1;
and discussions of post-war Iraq, 1;
reaction to UN inspectors’ failure to find WMDs, 1;
briefs TB, 1;
visits USA with TB, 1;
sent to gather support for UN vote, 1;
tries to persuade TB that he doesn’t have to go to war, 1;
announces Kelly’s death to TB, 1;
and Iraq civil war, 1;
appointed US ambassador, 1, 2, 3
Margaret, Princess, 1
Margolik, David, 1
Mark, Ros, 1
Marr, Andrew: on Mandelson and Hinduja, 1
Marx, Karl, 1
Maude, Francis, 1
Maxwell, Robert, 1, 2, 3, 4
Mendis, Viraj, 1
Merkel, Angela, 1, 2, 3
Messenger, Colonel Gordon, 1
Meyer, Christopher, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
MI6: and ‘war on terror’, 1, 2, 3; unreliability as information source, 1;
intensifies search for evidence of WMDs, 1;
and first JIC dossier, 1, 2;
potential Saddam murder plot, 1;
reliability challenged in wake of UN inspectors’ failure to find WMDs, 1;
discounts report of non-existence of WMDs, 1;
Gilligan’s source sought at, 1;
exonerated by Taylor, 1;
Scarlett appointed head, 1;
and Libya, 1;
ignorance about Iraq civil war, 1;
and Butler inquiry and report, 1, 2, 3
Michael, Alun, 1
Mid-Staffordshire Hospital Trust, 1
Milburn, Alan: appointed junior health minister, 1; and health policy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13;
appointed health secretary, 1;
helps prepare TB for Frost interview, 1;
prepares NHS Plan 2000, 1;
on Brown and Mandelson, 1;
fights to introduce the market into the NHS and restructure management, 1, 2, 3;
relationship with Brown, 1, 2, 3;
tackles TB over tenor of his leadership, 1;
row with Brown, 1;
resigns, 1;
potential to succeed TB, 1;
on NHS under Reid, 1;
TB discusses possibility of him replacing Brown, 1;
urges TB not to hand over to Brown, 1;
support for TB in run-up to 2005 general election, 1, 2;
appointed 2005 election supremo, 1;
replaced by Brown, 1;
TB asks to question Brown’s fitness to be PM, 1;
criticises Brown at TB’s behest, 1;
chances of the succession ruined by Brown, 1
Milchan, Arnon, 1
Miles, Alice, 1
Miliband, David: background and character, 1; and TB’s first reshuffle, 1;
helps with forces of conservatism speech, 1;
helps with 2001 election, 1;
enthusiasm for targets, 1;
and A-levels, 1;
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on educational achievement and social class, 1;
support for TB, 1;
gives up own leadership chances to pledge support to Brown, 1;
and anti-Brown coups, 1
Miliband, Ed: encourages Brown to attack TB, 1; challenges Le Grand’s market ideas for NHS, 1;
and Stevens, 1;
Brown leaks handover deal to, 1;
Brown discusses tuition fees vote with, 1;
takes out on Morgan TB’s reneging on deal, 1;
attacks TB, 1
Milken, Michael, 1
Millar, Fiona: as CB’s PA, 1; and Mandelson, 1;
tries to make TB sack Powell and Hunter, 1;
renews attack on Hunter, 1;
and Caplin, 1, 2;
announces intention to resign over Iraq war, 1, 2;
relationship with Campbell affected by the war, 1;
CB decides she should leave, 1
Millennium Dome, 1, 2, 3, 4
Miller, Julian, 1, 2, 3
Milošević, Slobodan, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
mines, anti-personnel, 1
Mitchell, Paul, 1
Mittal, Lakshmi, 1
Modernisation Agency, 1, 2, 3
‘Modernising Government’ White Paper, 1
Mogherini, Federica, 1
Monitor, 1
Montagu, Nicholas, 1
Moore, Jo, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Morgan, Sally, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Morris, Bill, 1
Morris, Estelle: background and character, 1; as junior education minister, 1;
loyalty to TB, 1;
appointed education minister, 1;
and education policy, 1, 2, 3, 4;
resigns, 1
Mosley, Max, 1, 2, 3
Mossad, 1
Mottram, Richard, 1
Mowlam, Mo, 1
MRSA, 1
Mubadala, 1, 2, 3, 4
Mubarak, Hosni, 1
Mugabe, Robert, 1
Mulgan, Geoff, 1, 2
multiculturalism, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Murdoch, Elisabeth, 1
Murdoch, James, 1
Murdoch, Rupert, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Murdoch, Wendi see Deng, Wendi
Nasser al-Missned, Sheikha Mozah bint, 1
National College for Teaching and Leadership, 1
National Health Service (NHS) see health
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), 1
National Literacy Strategy (NLS), 1
National Lottery, 1
NATO: and Kosovo intervention, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; and Iraq, 1, 2, 3;
and Afghanistan, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Nazarbayev, Nursultan, 1, 2, 3
Neather, Andy, 1
Negroponte, John, 1
Neill, Patrick, 1
NETA, 1
Netanyahu, Benjamin, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Netherlands, 1
Network Enabled Capability programme, 1
New Deal, 1, 2, 3
New Statesman, 1
News of the World, 1
NHS Direct, 1
NICE see National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
Nicholson, David, 1
Nigeria, 1, 2, 3, 4
9/11, 1
NLS see National Literacy Strategy
Noon, Sir Gulam, 1
Normington, David: appointed permanent secretary at education department, 1; on TB and 9/11, 1;
and education results and standards, 1, 2, 3, 4;
on racial segregation in schools, 1;
excluded from discussions of radicalisation, 1;
and Adonis’s changes, 1;
moves to Home Office, 1
Norris, Geoff, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Northern Ireland see Ulster
nuclear power see energy
nuclear weapons, 1, 2; see also weapons of mass destruction
nurses, 1, 2, 3, 4
Obama, Barack, 1
Oborne, Peter, 1
O’Brien, Mike: and immigration policy, 1, 2, 3; replaced by Barbara Roche, 1;
and Hinduja affair, 1;
and energy policy, 1;
and car industry, 1, 2
O’Donnell, Gus, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Office for National Statistics (ONS), 1
Office of Fair Trading, 1
Office of Public Sector Reform, 1
Ofgem, 1, 2
Ofsted: announces many teachers unsatisfactory, 1; Labour desire to abolish, 1;
TB to enhance powers, 1;
Woodhead asks for greater powers, 1;
Tomlinson replaces Woodhead, 1;
Bell made chief inspector, 1;
Margaret Brown declares results to be distorted, 1;
literacy report, 1;
blames teachers for poor results, 1;
Gilbert appointed head, 1;
see also Bell, David;
Tomlinson, Mike;
Woodhead, Chris
oil: fuel-delivery lorry drivers’ protest (2000), 1; TB’s ambition to make money from, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Oldham race riots (2001), 1, 2
Olmert, Ehud, 1, 2, 3
Olympic Games bid, 1
Omand, David: and immigration policy, 1, 2, 3, 4; and fuel-delivery lorry drivers’ protest, 1, 2;
on Birt’s ‘blue-sky’ report for Home Office, 1;
considered for post of Cabinet secretary, 1;
appointed security co-ordinator, 1;
and Iraq war, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
on Thompson, 1;
and Hutton inquiry, 1;
excluded from discussions of Iraq civil war, 1;
and Butler inquiry, 1;
and Afghanistan mission, 1
Omnia Strategy, 1
ONS see Office for National Statistics
Operation Desert Fox (1998), 1
Operation Salamanca (2006), 1
Operation Sinbad (2006–7), 1
Osborne, George, 1
Ouseley, Sir Herman, 1
Overseas Policy and Defence Committee (OPX), 1, 2
Owen, David, 1, 2
Owen, Ed, 1
Oxford University, 1
Page, Jennie, 1
Pakenham, Michael, 1, 2
Palestine: Labour left wing’s attitude, 1; TB as envoy of the Quartet, looking for peace settlement with Israel, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
Gaddafi funds education programmes, 1;
Israel invades Gaza, 1
Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), 1
parliamentary standards investigations, 1, 2
Parris, Matthew, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Patel, Chai, 1, 2
Patten, Chris, 1, 2
Paxman, Jeremy, 1
Peach, Air Marshal Stuart, 1
Pearce, Nick, 1, 2
pensions, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Peres, Shimon, 1
Perrin, Alain-Dominique, 1
Peston, Robert, 1
Petraeus, General David, 1
petrol, fuel-delivery lorry drivers’ protest (2000), 1
PetroSaudi, 1
PFI see Private Finance Initiative
Phaco, 1
Philip Morris tobacco company, 1, 2
Phillips, Trevor, 1
Phoenix Four, 1, 2, 3
phone hacking, 1
Pinchuk, Victor, 1
PLO see Palestine Liberation Organisation
Plowden Report (1967), 1
Pocock, Andrew, 1
Poland, 1
police: refuse to confront fuel-delivery lorry drivers, 1; Lawrence investigation, 1;
slow-handclapping Straw, 1;
and 7/7, 1;
alienation of public trust through de Menezes shooting and kettling tactics, 1;
investigate loans for peerages, 1, 2, 3
Portes, Jonathan, 1
Post Office, 1
poverty levels, 1, 2, 3
PowderJect Pharmaceuticals, 1
Powell, Charles, 1, 2
Powell, Colin, 1, 2, 3
attitude to civil service, 1, 2;
role for Cabinet meetings, 1, 2, 3;
on initial New Labour strategy, 1;
importance to TB, 1, 2;
and Ecclestone scandal, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
and foreign policy, 1;
on TB’s government style, 1;
shunted to Northern Ireland, 1;
on prime ministerial power, 1;
on TB’s first reshuffle, 1;
on TB’s influences, 1;
and Kosovo intervention, 1, 2;
on TB’s fight for extra NHS money, 1;
on health policy, 1;
on Byers’s appointment as trade and industry secretary, 1;
belief in power of legislation, 1;
relationship with Tebbit, 1;
Millar calls for his dismissal, 1;
and Iraq war, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
attitude to Wilson, 1;
and TB–Brown relationship, 1, 2;
and Mittal donation, 1;
on TB and detail, 1;
and first Iraq dossier, 1, 2, 3, 4;
advises TB re. Iraq invasion, 1;
role in war plans, 1;
visits USA with TB, 1;
persistently undermines Hoon, 1;
on the neocons, 1;
and war briefings, 1;
and health policy, 1;
on consultants’ contracts, 1;
on Brown’s ambition to be PM, 1;
and Gilligan affair, 1;
keeps military away from TB, 1, 2;
and row over military funding, 1;
and loans for peerages scandal, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
and Afghanistan mission, 1, 2;
on TB and education policy, 1;
on TB’s achievements, 1;
on TB’s survival strategy, 1;
warns TB party support for him waning, 1;
thanks TB’s team for support, 1;
on Dannatt’s insurrection, 1;
on TB and the succession, 1;
helps TB with his commercial work, 1, 2;
campaigns for TB to become EU president, 1;
supports TB being given prize by Save the Children, 1
Prashar, Baroness Usha, 1, 2
Prescott, John: appointed to TB’s government, 1; and transport policy, 1, 2;
attitude to Mandelson, 1;
