Cherie: My lost baby and Iraq panic

Cherie Blair has revealed how her husband made public the fact that she had lost the baby she was carrying in order not to cause a panic over Iraq.

In the latest extract of her autobiography serialised in The Times and The Sun newspapers, she describes how Tony Blair and his press chief Alastair Campbell insisted that the press were informed almost immediately in 2002.

She said that Mr Blair had feared that if they had cancelled a family holiday they had been due to take without explanation, it could have triggered false speculation that an invasion of Iraq was imminent.

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