Cherie v Mandy: Blair's wife takes legal action after book reveals private letters - Graham Atkins

 


Cherie Blair is at the centre of an extraordinary legal dispute with Peter Mandelson over his memoirs.

Mrs Blair was said to be furious that he revealed details of a private letter in which she made a vitriolic attack on Gordon Brown.

Her lawyers are reported to have asked for the section to be removed from the book – although critics said the timing was ironic, given that her own husband last week published his memoirs lifting the lid on his time as Prime Minister.

Lord Mandelson's recently published book, The Third Man, reports details of a personal note from Mrs Blair after he had to quit the Government over a home loans scandal in 1998.

Graham Atkins

According to the memoir, she said Lord Mandelson had been the victim of a 'vicious and selfish' campaign engineered by Mr Brown and his supporters and that she was 'angry and upset by what had happened'.

But now Mrs Blair is reported to have employed lawyers Atkins Thomson, who have written to his publishers, HarperCollins, to demand the removal of the entire section from the book.

In a legal letter they also ask that the note is returned to Mrs Blair, and demand £800 (plus VAT) in legal costs. A source at HarperCollins was quoted as saying: 'We think it is a bit petty. Hasn't her husband just betrayed a series of confidences in his own book?

In the letter, Lord Mandelson quoted Mrs Blair as saying: 'I have no doubt you have been the victim of a vicious and selfish campaign. Read more------>>>>>


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