or delusional, blairwas asked.”lusional, blairwas askedi think what is important is to understand that there is already a lot that we know now that we did not know a year ago when we took the decision. we know for example that oui’ currency decision. we know for example that our currency is down significantly, that's a prediction by the international markets as to our future disparity. we know that businesses are already moving jobs out of the country and we know this time last year we were at the fastest—growing economy in the g—7 and we are now the slowest. i think we now know there was not weird and £50 million a week extra for the national health service. in the short and medium—term there is less money. tony blair has set out his case in an article for his institute for global change. saying it given what is at stake and what we're discovering about the cost of brexit, how can it be right deliberately to take off the table the option of compromise between britain and europe so that britain stays within a reform

blair, which is really interesting i think because tony blair was interesting i think because tony blairwaskans, kosovo and so on, i‘m not surprised he focused in on this, blair was not surprised he focused in on this, blairwas an not surprised he focused in on this, blair was an emotional guy and ironically gordon brown and theresa may are being accused of not being emotional enough so there‘s an interesting conversation here i think. do you think or believe that emotion interfered with rational decision—making? emotion interfered with rational decision-making? sure, yeah, i'm sure it did. when i met tony blair in kosovo for example when my brigade built and ran refugee camps, he literally wept in tents with the refugees, he‘s very emotional, and in chicago in 99 when he made a speech, he talked about the necessity in the 20th century not to stand back and watch when people are massacred in the balkans and rwanda and so on but we all bring emotions into this but how far do you allow them to infringe on your decision—making? again i stress, i don‘t rush to defend tony blair, i don‘t rush to