Bedside reading for Sir Keir? Blair’s book

SIR Tony Blair has written a book on political leadership, to be published in September. The former prime minister says he has written the manual for government he wishes he had been able to read when he came to power.

Sir Tony won office with a landslide election victory as leader of the Labour party in 1997. He served as prime minister of the United Kingdom for 10 years, leaving office in 2007 when he was replaced by his chancellor Gordon Brown. The book, to be published by Hutchinson Heinemann, will consist of short chapters that draw on examples of political leadership from across the world.