Mo was an inspiration

Even ignoring the strange, truly bizarre way that the media/political in-crowd somehow think Tony Blair is rehabilitated in the public eye – platforming him repeatedly on his Brexit views – is no one going to challenge him when he walks all over Mo Mowlam’s greatest political legacy?

Rarely does he miss an opportunity to distract the public ear from Iraq by mentioning the Good Friday agreement and thereby appropriating that (increasingly fragile) success for himself.

If we also ignore the fact that John Major paved the way for peace in Ireland, the Labour figure – above all and beyond all doubt, who deserves (and did get a little at the time) credit for the headknocking-together that was required to make the impossible happen, was NE Labour MP Mo Mowlam.

In my fledgling days in the Labour Party and as an elected city councillor in the NE – way before I left in disgust over Iraq – Mo Mowlam was a one-time mentor and a huge inspiration to me as a woman politician.

Just when I think TonyBlair cannot make me feel more revulsion than he already has – he does. Amanda Baker