"A pathological confidence-trickster."
Former Conservative MP and writer Matthew Parris summed up
the view from many on both the right (Boris Johnson called him "a mixture of
Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness.
Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall") and possibly the left.
Blair's colleague Claire Short accused Blair of being "reckless with our
government; reckless with his own future, position and place in
history".
