Tony Blair's admission of the British government's culpability over the Irish Famine was neither written nor approved by the former PM before it was sent, National Archive papers show.
The message was needed at short notice and Sir John could not reach Mr Blair for his final approval, the documents released by the National Archives, in Kew, revealed. He said he had checked with "all and sundry" including Alastair Campbell, then Downing Street press secretary, and "everyone" thought that reference was right.The British Ambassador to Ireland, Veronica Sutherland, wrote: "In all the circumstances, events could not have turned out better."
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