Mowlam claims she was hounded from NI role
Former Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam claims she was hounded out of the office after opinion polls showed she was the most popular member of Tony Blair’s Cabinet, it was revealed today.
Ms Mowlam describes how her relationship with the British Prime Minister Tony Blair deteriorated after she won a standing ovation during his keynote speech at the 1998 Labour Party conference.
In the Daily Mail’s first serialisation of her autobiography, Momentum, she said: ‘‘I think this was the point when my relationship with Tony began to get rocky.’’
Ms Mowlam, who stood down from politics at the last election, describes how she was gradually elbowed out of the job of Northern Ireland Secretary by Mr Blair’s aides and how she became the victim of a campaign to publicly discredit her.
