Back in the 80s Tony Blair used to review the papers for TVam!

"Have you met him?" I was asked today. Many times. In the 80s (when I would never in my wildest dreams have picked him out as a future PM) he used to be a regular paper reviewer for me and Nick Owen on Good Morning Britain, coming into the studio in the first hour - before all the really important politicians and showbiz guests came in! Him and Paddy Ashdown (who used to wear silk shirts).

Love the bit about him not taking the kids with him to a barbecue at Balmoral - because his eldest son, Euan, was prone to speaking his mind!

I chatted to Edwina Currie this morning about the book. She came into Parliament the same year as Tony Blair and Gordon Brown - and admitted that, though she first thought she'd give the book a miss, she's now intrigued! She called it a "misery memoir with a difference"!

At least, if we buy it, the proceeds will be going to the Royal British Legion, as promised last week. I wonder how much it will all be worth?