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Tony Blair called Morgan red water speech nonsense
The 2002 memo to Tony Blair calls Rhodri Morgan's speech "pretty grim stuff", and the then prime minister writes at the bottom "dreadful nonsense" A memo written by a Downing Street adviser called ...