“I understand there is a need for a stable and orderly transition to that leadership, but that people should give me the space to ensure that happens and that this debate is not best conducted in the pages of the Mail on Sunday.”

—  Tony Blair

Michael White, "I will go in my own time – Blair", The Guardian, 12 May 2005, p. 2.
Speech to the Parliamentary Labour Party, 11 May 2005; the 'leadership' referred to was that of his successor, who was widely assumed to be Gordon Brown.
2000s

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