It has been known for some time that Tony Blair will have to appear before the Chilcot enquiry, but yesterday's formal announcement to that effect has registered the fact in the EU corridors of power. There can be no possibility of the presidency going to a man who will have to appear, in his first few months in office, before an inquiry into a hugely controversial decision that he took as British PM.
This has set me thinking. It has been most curious, puzzling indeed, to see how the Labour Party’s top brass has closed ranks behind Blair, with Brown himself giving his former adversary a glowing endorsement for a post that he never had any realistic chance of obtaining. Is it possible that the party read this whole thing the wrong way round? Can it be that in their arrogance they assumed that if only they could get their man into a top international post, the Chilcot enquiry could safely be ignored?
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