This just in: Prime Minister Tony Blair decided in 2002 to go public with the news of his wife’s miscarriage “to avoid public panic over invasion of Iraq”, according to a new autobiography by Cherie Blair. She recalls:
I couldn’t believe it. There I was bleeding, and they were talking about what was going to be the line to the press. I put down the receiver and lay there staring at the ceiling as the pain began to grip.