LONDON - Mr Tony Blair is an estranged and rootless man who is helping to reshape the identity of the Labour Party to suit his own flawed psychological make up, according to a new book by Leo Abse, the former Labour MP.
Using a placatory smile as a mask and insisting on consensus, he is afraid of released aggression because of a childhood in a house of secrets dominated by an authoritarian, illegitimate, stricken father, where a promiscuous grandmother forever cast a shadow, it says.