Once they've seen Paree—or at any rate once they've hobnobbed with the Clintons at the White House—it is no easy thing for British politicians to knuckle down to the quotidian affairs of Whitehall and Westminster. This, rather than the much talked-about "campaign of whispers" against her, is the likeliest explanation for Mo Mowlam's announcement this week that membership of Tony Blair's cabinet had delighted her long enough. All the same, the loss in mysterious circumstances of one of his most popular ministers cannot have been the way the prime minister would have wanted to start a political season which most people expect to end next spring with a general election. What does her going tell you about Blairism?
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